From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 12:41:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 4EB0816A47B for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:41:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.200.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BB143CC5 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:41:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-173-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.173.219]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <200611291241070120012pvbe>; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:41:07 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:40:47 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611290640.47326.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Subject: Dell PE 1950 bce NICs revisited 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, 29 Nov 2006 12:41:10 -0000 I've been using 6.1-R on a PE1950 for some time now. The stock bce driver doesn't work at all. I dug up a driver off the web (0.9.6) that worked fine with my workload (basically all TCP) but in talking to Scott I discovered that UDP traffic was a problem for this driver. Some time ago I upgraded to the driver in -STABLE. This driver also appears to work fine, but about once a day I get the following: Nov 29 01:16:47 server2 kernel: bce1: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(5000): Watch dog timeout occurred, resetting! Nov 29 01:16:47 server2 kernel: bce1: link state changed to DOWN Nov 29 01:16:48 server2 kernel: bce1: link state changed to UP Pretty minor complaint, as it doesn't really affect the operation of the box, but I suppose it's a sign that there's still some work to be done. $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c,v 1.2.2.6 2006/10/24 As I write this I see there has been some further work on the driver, so I think I'll upgrade it and see what happens. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel