From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 25 1:50: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alogis.com (firewall.solit-ag.de [212.184.102.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7E837B400; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alogis.com (kipp@clausthal.int1.b.intern [10.1.1.30]) by alogis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g5P8mLF88012; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:48:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from holger.kipp@alogis.com) Message-ID: <3D182E49.D5E86F50@alogis.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:48:09 +0200 From: Holger Kipp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: greg.panula@dolaninformation.com Cc: Kal Torak , Barry Irwin , FreeBSD Stable , FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: Good dual port NICs? References: <3D16E250.9080004@quake.com.au> <20020624112838.F46303@itouchlabs.com> <3D16E972.3080505@quake.com.au> <3D17D697.E91515E@dolaninformation.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Panula wrote: > > Kal Torak wrote: > > > > Barry Irwin wrote: > > > Not Dual port, but I have been using the quad port dlink 570-TX cards for > > > quite a while with no hastles. > > > > I was unable to get dlink's quad port 570TX card to work properly in an > SMP kernel. The card worked fine in single cpu mode. The box I was > using was a compaq DL360 and the code was freebsd-stable 4.4. I got > watchdog timeouts if I remember correctly. A search thru -stable list > should turn up my problems. We're using three of them in one system (no SMP) without any problems. > So, I'm not sure if it was an interupt thing or APIC thing with freebsd > or just a general user head-space problem on my part. I'd bet it was a problem with shared irqs (and IO-APIC-support). Could you provide some more information (if you still have them?). Just so I can collect more data / evidence on this. Problem Report or anything? Regards, Holger -- Holger Kipp, Dipl.-Math., Systemadministrator | alogis AG Fon: +49 (0)30 / 43 65 8 - 114 | Berliner Strasse 26 Fax: +49 (0)30 / 43 65 8 - 214 | D-13507 Berlin Tegel email: holger.kipp@alogis.com | http://www.alogis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message