From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 18:23:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0601416A41F for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 18:23:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A533113C458 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 18:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so874479anc for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 11:23:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j42TkcZr0XKx+WBpklVVHGkJbfonKixeQlzcbwhmCWjBSVylTNdim7DEaW4+WaR03IS92d5+rp3VjcuLYURH/c7yCYXRY7H3OhN/U+XOlSEWKqiw1LnUHxy7pWgryrK0tsDe0VhbcBUd+qJ/IDj9xE+EFviqp1htUWA/bKE0vN8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Y6rYLIOAg2MzLaTWqfjD3QXO6UwUe/KTL0Tgo6UCiPQBTWuTRt1mYnu379LxwKnDCIHCEdVfoxjHPy23z17BZs5dPa23nEhZkvnO4f6lQat1hKw4JqnibJdtFZcBshzN+y/6TVYzWyUKzhTJvFwZ6+cnKfbf2tX0gldCHV0wPTU= Received: by 10.100.121.12 with SMTP id t12mr6228854anc.1180549409919; Wed, 30 May 2007 11:23:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.9.14 with HTTP; Wed, 30 May 2007 11:23:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0705301123w6c15aab2ke92c12343ced7629@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:23:29 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Vinny Abello" In-Reply-To: <465DC050.8020707@tellurian.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de> <465DB5B2.8040707@tellurian.com> <20070530174631.GA15795@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <499c70c0705301113n58588719j6fb35154701f3cb1@mail.gmail.com> <465DC050.8020707@tellurian.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 18:23:37 -0000 On 5/30/07, Vinny Abello wrote: > Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: > >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or > >> ifconfig > >> > doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering if it is > >> > supported by the driver on this chipset. > >> > >> You need to enable "options DEVICE_POLLING" in your kernel. > >> > >> See polling(4). > >> > >> -- > >> | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at > >> parodius.com | > >> | Parodius Networking > >> http://www.parodius.com/ | > >> | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, > >> USA | > >> | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: > >> 4BD6C0CB | > >> > > > > I have it in my kernel, do I need to add polling in rc.conf too? > > OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and > it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking > with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue > I wrote about originally. I still have the same loss. :( > > Any other ideas? Does anyone run a PowerEdge 2650 with FreeBSD 6.0 or > later that's on this list? > > Thanks! > > -- > > Vinny Abello > Network Engineer > vinny@tellurian.com > (973)940-6100 > PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A > > Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection > http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN > > "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear" > -- Mark Twain I saw bge code changed in RELENG_6 few days ago, I would recommend that you csup and recompile your kernel as well. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/