From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 11 17:47:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1010316A468 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:47:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C0D13C44B for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:47:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.tcbug.org (mail.tcbug.org [208.42.70.163]) by cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DEE7811A; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:30:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (unknown [192.168.2.1]) by mail.tcbug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD56341C2B; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:30:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:30:21 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <4694940D.9050408@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <4694940D.9050408@tomjudge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart11726335.vzX6NaP99J"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707111230.24975.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Tom Judge , Paul Schmehl Subject: Re: Question about bce driver 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: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:47:30 -0000 --nextPart11726335.vzX6NaP99J Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the > > if_bce.c file with a slightly newer one that at least got the > > driver working without hard lockups that required a reboot to > > fix. (Rather problematic on a remotely located web server.) > > > > If I download the latest driver from cvs (1.33), should I also > > replace the if_bcefw.h and if_bcereg.h files with the newer > > versions? Will the NIC work without creating new problems?=20 > > Right now I get an occasional "flapping" of the NIC link state > > (down, up , down, up, etc.) but it at least works most of the > > time. I don't want to buildworld and get suprised by a > > non-functioning NIC. :-) > > > > If I use the newer versions, will I also need to use some other > > newer files that are called by them? Or would it be better to > > upgrade the entire box to 6.2? > > > > FreeBSD www.stovebolt.com 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 > > #2: > > > > grep bce /var/run/dmesg.boot > > bce0: mem > > 0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9 > > bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz > > miibus0: on bce0 > > bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad > > bce1: mem > > 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5 > > bce1: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz > > miibus1: on bce1 > > bce1: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ab > > Hi Paul, > > From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months > the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and > there is a light-moderate network load. > > However if you want to use Jumbo frames the driver is very > unstable. I posted a patch against 6.2 which should fix some load > based issues in the driver with standard frame sizes. > > Tom Paul, I was never able to solve the link up/link down problems with=20 the driver....I was using the drivers from STABLE for a while, and=20 without jumbo frames everything worked somewhat ok most of the=20 time....the ultimate solution was to just get the intel PCI-X card=20 and stop using the broadcoms. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel --nextPart11726335.vzX6NaP99J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGlROwJvkB8SevrssRAmscAJ0X5An4mp97FhO2VUMMw3zacyjj1QCfY1YS IPUKkRo0P/C5A6gvNkF5NI0= =xJJD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart11726335.vzX6NaP99J--