From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 2 0:20: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0AA37B71E; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (cs-wla2-p43.lafn.org [192.168.16.43] (may be forged)) by zoon.lafn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f327Jtf52083; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <200104011725.f31HPSC00996@mass.dis.org> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:16:48 -0700 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: Network performance question Cc: Mike Smith , "David W. Chapman Jr." , "Jason T. Luttgens" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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