From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 19:38:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7BC16A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (host-84-9-223-82.bulldogdsl.com [84.9.223.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B0C43D45 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF35FD021; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.devrandom.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47999-02; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail.devrandom.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAC4FD008; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 192.168.0.1 (proxying for 192.168.1.175) (SquirrelMail authenticated user chris@chrishowells.co.uk) by webmail.devrandom.org.uk with HTTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:00 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <51496.192.168.0.1.1140464280.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0602201104v1c160788rf9db6bb5c96e7b34@mail.gmail.com> References: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> <2a41acea0602201104v1c160788rf9db6bb5c96e7b34@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:00 -0000 (GMT) From: "Chris Howells" To: "Jack Vogel" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at devrandom.org.uk Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Chris Howells Subject: Re: Which motherboards work well with em(4)? 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: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:06 -0000 Hi Jack, On Mon, February 20, 2006 7:04 pm, Jack Vogel wrote: > I can't really help you with the AMD motherboard, dont get much chance to > work with them at Intel :) Lol. I did wonder if the Intel NICs might be programmed to do this in protest at being in a board with a Via chipset and AMD CPU ;) Going down the Intel-everything route is something I considered but unfortunately I can't afford a Pentium D and I'm hesitant at using a Pentium 4 without powersaving in servers on 24x7. > However, I wondered exactly what NIC you have? OK, one of the machines (the one running 6.0-REL) has a: em0@pci0:19:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10028086 chip=0x10268086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82545GM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet (64 bit PCI card running in a 32 bit slot) The other (the one running 6.1 pre) has a: em0@pci0:13:0: class=0x020000 card=0x002e8086 chip=0x100e8086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet > And have you tried taking the tip of tree driver, Scott and others have > been > hard at work tweaking it. I can't swear that we are 100% yet, but you > should give that a try before a whole motherboard swap :) You are talking about the 7.0 current driver I assume? That sounds like a good idea especially if it's had lots of improvements. I'll give that a go in a day or two hopefully. It also occurred to me that I haven't experimented with polling, so I'm doing that now on one of the machines. Thanks. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- howells@kde.org Web: http://www.kde.org.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt Developer: http://www.kde.org