From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 23 23:57:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F1D16A41A for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:57:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC51213C459 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:57:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so862774ugf for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:57:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=rXhL5cg+jWBXYvrK9Jqa0bU2LTC0CgyCPVHUzKjYMgs=; b=dum5zeP1rOug3SNbL9Y7UauoQ1QCW04mlScbq/pD9LQp+iGaRwoXvQmd9dPl7eehQPo8ue4pnYoGaSOXPGbbOJQvM00tENqM3onDBpUQSmP9j95gr+3G5FiXMpxN4SgntY3SGJt2so1U5u+Fq4yfVN4jcIANgP+HghOmFBWrcGU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=HXyAAIUXyRsztOgBM3XgwNQgSlmLfVmSyUvA/1QoeSOYu8hyY5C0liqmAcX/gmTuTZdsio2y63IcaaUJ4fenlIQeKyMIk1amj100tTMBiAacEnSX8OipE1BitUAVGN5CiluPl86xhGErE8uObPbuemIEAdcEbS0c4lokWJc4Lcc= Received: by 10.67.119.15 with SMTP id w15mr7121808ugm.1190591843754; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.237.15 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0709231657r3264c873ife71800731608b03@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:57:23 +0100 From: Chris To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, "FreeBSD Stable" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: nfe driver 6.2 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:57:25 -0000 Hi I installed the following driver. http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki//software/freebsd-nfe.html Before I had the nve driver which was unstable on this server and on a prior server in both cases causing either spontaneous reboot or just a crash when under load. So far touchwood the nfe driver has stayed up and running at almost 3 days uptime and has had some stress. I know the driver supports device polling which I have chosen not to use yet as I wanted to see initially if it was more stable in its default mode. But what I want to know is the following if possible please. My ifconfig output below. nfe0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=8 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast x.x.x.x inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.x.x.x ether x media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX ) status: active 1 - is there a man page for nfe anywhere? 2 - does it support hardware checksum I remember reading it does but from ifconfig output it appears to not be in use so if it does support it how do I enable it? 3 - same with TOS? 4 - how do I enable jumbo frames if it supports it? 5 - is it safe to use with zero copy sockets? 6 - I currently have both net.isr.direct and mpsafenet disabled is this driver safe to use on them? Thanks Chris