Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:50:49 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 Message-ID: <20070228225049.GA64944@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <45E5FA49.8050509@scls.lib.wi.us> References: <20070215043533.GA3293@icarus.home.lan> <000b01c750bd$5a2d55b0$d801a8c0@dimuthu> <20070228092000.GA51292@icarus.home.lan> <200702281832.l1SIW2DF077797@lava.sentex.ca> <E7980669-771B-4DA7-9F90-3F2762C1BF59@khera.org> <45E5FA49.8050509@scls.lib.wi.us>
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:55:21PM -0600, Greg Barniskis wrote: > On our Dell PE2950 units, we had to do the same thing (disable and > replace the Broadcom interfaces), and that was running Windows > Server 2k3. The problem really seems to be flakiness of the chips or > firmware, not necessarily flakiness in the drivers for FreeBSD. > Maybe it's both, I don't know. > > My point is that Broadcom cards have had some serious problems on > other platforms too, and not just recently. Other NIC brands have > never given us nearly as much trouble. Sounds like I'm going to have to purchase a dual NIC card and install it in our server, then disable the onboard Broadcom NICs. Amusingly, I'll point out that on all newer Supermicro boards (Intel chipset-based), Supermicro is using Intel NICs and PHYs, and no longer Broadcom. -- | 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 |
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