Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:15:45 -0800 From: security <security@jim-liesl.org> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bce discard frame w/o leading ethernet header and polling (broken?) 7.1-beta2 Message-ID: <49233081.9000900@jim-liesl.org> In-Reply-To: <200811181344.20092.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <492302E2.4040907@jim-liesl.org> <200811181344.20092.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 01:01 pm, security wrote: > >> I'm building a WAN emulation box based on 7.1-beta2-ipfw and >> dummynet. The config is basically a router-on-a-stick. The server >> (FBSD rtr) has two nics which connect to two different switches, >> but both switch ports are in the same untagged interconnected vlan. >> All the other test boxes in the network are also in the same vlan, >> but broken into different nets. The different nets are spread >> across the two nics as primary and alias ip address in different >> nets. I've been getting "bursts" (maybe 8-20 at a time) of the >> discard frame messages. Mostly on bce1 but I've seen them on bce0 >> also. bce1 is probably the busier of the 2 currently. As a shot in >> the dark, I disabled polling system wide and the messages seemed to >> have stopped. >> > > Please try the latest driver from RELENG_7. The following commit > seems interesting: > > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=184826 > > Jung-uk Kim > Thanks, you're right it does. I noticed he disabled polling as I had done. There are enough other interesting bits that i'll try the driver. jim
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