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Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell
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>>
>> Why would you need to do that?  There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS
>> already.
>
> Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short answer:
> under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel.

is it any recipe to trigger that behaviour? i have that card (builtin) on 
loaded server with 2 months uptime and with quite lot of traffic going 
through that card.