From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 22 4:43:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320FE37B405 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:43:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fBMCYSX22671; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:34:28 -0800 From: David Greenman To: Ian Dowse Cc: Sam Suh , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS broken? Message-ID: <20011222043428.B22607@nexus.root.com> References: <3C235E16.C139FDF1@bigstudios.com> <200112221232.aa35775@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112221232.aa35775@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 12:32:53PM +0000 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 >In message <3C235E16.C139FDF1@bigstudios.com>, Sam Suh writes: >>ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.75.108 netmask 255.255.255.0" > >We have a number of Dell servers that have these Broadcom gigabit >ethernet ports, and we have not been able to get NFS to run reliably >on them either. One problem related to hardware checksum offloading >was fixed in -STABLE a few days ago by disabling that feature. For >us that helped a lot, but we have still seen a few other problems Hardware checksum was only disabled on the receive path; I didn't disable it for transmits since I haven't seen any problems with that. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message