Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:16:48 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, "Jason T. Luttgens" <lucky@lansters.com> Subject: Re: Network performance question Message-ID: <f0433011db6edd7194143@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <f0433011ab6edbc7d0081@[10.0.1.3]> References: <200104011725.f31HPSC00996@mass.dis.org> <f0433011ab6edbc7d0081@[10.0.1.3]>
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At 22:29 -0700 4/1/01, Doug Hardie wrote: >At 10:25 -0700 4/1/01, Mike Smith wrote: >> > > FreeBSD kinda disappointed me. It gets ~1000 interface errors on about >>> > 514000 packets. I switched the 3COM card out for a NetGear FA311 (sis >>> > driver). After receiving ~310000 packets, the network goes down (can't >>> > ping/telnet anywhere). At that point I have to ifconfig down and up the >>> > interface to get it back. >> >>You're disappointed in *FreeBSD* because of this? These are *hardware* >>failures you're describing here... > >I am not convinced yet. I have a number of FreeBSD 3.5-Stable >machines using the Netgear FA310TX boards that run with heavy loads. >Most of them currently have over 6 months since the last boot and I >never see the above problems. I don't run tcpdump for long periods >because I don't have the disk space to hold it. But it never seems >to drop packets. I don't know the differences between the 310 and >311 boards. The 310 uses the pn driver in 3.5 and the dc driver on >4.2. I just am updating my test system to 4.2 and have not been >able to do any long term tests yet. >-- >-- Doug I just got a chance to run a test with 10baseT connections. On the FA310TX card it hung after it got the first input error with 47K packets received. Something has obviously been changed from 3.5-Stable. I have done complete installs across the network on those cards using 3.5. Sure won't be able to use 4.2 in a production mode at this time. Some of my servers handle that volume every few minutes. What information can I provide to help get this fixed? -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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