From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 12:57:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9F037B400 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:57:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g1RKv1C02040; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:57:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:57:01 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Chih-Chang Hsieh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any suggestions for Gigabit Ethernet NIC? Message-ID: <20020227205701.GD99496@sunbay.com> References: <3C7AEFF4.4090807@cc.kmu.edu.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C7AEFF4.4090807@cc.kmu.edu.tw> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:16:20AM +0800, Chih-Chang Hsieh wrote: > Hi, All! > Which Gigabit Ethernet NIC (both in 1000BaseSX and 1000BaseT) > do you prefer on FreeBSD? We want to build a bridged traffic shaper. > Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance! > We have had serious problems with bge(4) driver -- the card works very unstable and periodically resets the chip. I don't know if this is a hardware or software problem, but we were forced to switch back to using 100BaseTX card: Feb 19 16:56:27 whale /kernel: bge0: gigabit link up Feb 20 10:49:40 whale /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Feb 20 12:00:04 whale /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Feb 20 12:04:12 whale /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Feb 20 12:06:44 whale /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Feb 21 17:18:18 whale /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Feb 21 17:19:59 whale /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Feb 21 17:21:36 whale /kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message