From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 13:35:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA871065672 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:35:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from eu1sys200aog108.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog108.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB4898FC08 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([63.174.175.251]) by eu1sys200aob108.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKTK8eJIatbXOV70dt70f4ftOCN38nsYKS@postini.com; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:35:34 UTC Received: from [172.17.10.53] (unknown [172.17.10.53]) by bbbx3.usdmm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D79FD019; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4CAF1E0E.1080608@tomjudge.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:35:10 -0500 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100922 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: a.smith@ukgrid.net References: <20100924021115.GI15014@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20100924123938.80702gxrzyfpury0@webmail2.ukgrid.net> <20100924165452.GA19036@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20100927122713.12822br1odth4sro@webmail2.ukgrid.net> <20100927165129.GA1435@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20100928132445.72052m5iw9f41ns4@webmail2.ukgrid.net> <20100928214438.GC1252@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20100928230824.10533d7gmmba360w@webmail2.ukgrid.net> <20100928222532.GD1252@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20101006174508.16931ioisevmzhy8@webmail2.ukgrid.net> <20101006174139.GC14879@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20101008134251.367570jyw4igvkg8@webmail2.ukgrid.net> In-Reply-To: <20101008134251.367570jyw4igvkg8@webmail2.ukgrid.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bge watchdog timeout errors FreeBSD 7.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:35:35 -0000 On 10/08/2010 07:42 AM, a.smith@ukgrid.net wrote: > Quoting Pyun YongHyeon : > >>> >> >> Ok, there might be a couple of edge cases not handled in bge(4). I >> believe things will improve over time but it depends on users >> feedback and testing. > > On this particular server I really need to get it stable and leave. > We are awaiting delivery of a Dell R610, I would think its likely it > uses the same ethernet chipset so will be able to perform more testing > on this. In theory we should have the server next week, will let you > know, > The R610 has a NetXtream II chipset which uses the bce(4) driver. If you are going to doing heavy network traffic, or using jumbo frames I would personally recommend you fit an Intel PCIe card to this server before you put it in production. Tom -- TJU13-ARIN