From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 10:34:04 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 251EF16A400 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 10:34:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB4413C465 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 10:34:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so124672mue for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 03:34:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WQtr6bwj9euW8m0b8/i39YFIv8zQW47l/ZaTtmMYThlYWwWCnQT6GbjaVEbvzfGOAPVHVM0G850h6AWJhWa4gfZ39EPWESJHIj4Xyx+fcMf1AjF76EHomYHAGX9vKMg+qbbfKbvHmRQ841lyVI+eGJ23fxL0NOhT0rrM6KKsObg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nuFziHlrFRjxIXzNk55CQzcyeTo3zG3NecWFXmE8IiKshpfvUUtrBGWXxMsAr9R6trk3m6gHxBDoKErFFrO9CzFX6whnjC+ilAI1W1IavWvw+1TeYEgUP4AlnVYChKFOE90DAuZyq8BzkzVBEPAEW/daYaSmAI/NLl6t+gYsr3g= Received: by 10.82.180.17 with SMTP id c17mr15734113buf.1180607642322; Thu, 31 May 2007 03:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.16.16? ( [91.135.49.192]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b36sm240150ika.2007.05.31.03.33.49; Thu, 31 May 2007 03:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <465EA47B.7050400@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:33:31 +0200 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vinny Abello References: <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de> <465DB6C5.30407@tellurian.com> In-Reply-To: <465DB6C5.30407@tellurian.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:34:04 -0000 Vinny Abello wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: >> Vinny Abello wrote: >> > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss >> > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the >> > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. >> >> Have you enabled polling on the interface? >> >> I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360 >> running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago). >> The problem disappeared upon "ifconfig bge0 polling". >> >> Best regards >> Oliver > > It appears I do not have the DEVICE_POLLING option set when I compiled > my kernel on my one machine and on the second I am just using the > GENERIC kernel. I'll recompile with this option set and try again and > post my results to the list. > > Thanks! > Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum -rxcsum ). -- Sten Daniel Soersdal