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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Subject: Re: Question about bce driver
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Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote:
>> 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 
> the driver....I was using the drivers from STABLE for a while, and 
> without jumbo frames everything worked somewhat ok most of the 
> time....the ultimate solution was to just get the intel PCI-X card 
> and stop using the broadcoms.
> 
> 

We have basically come to the same conclusion today,  unfortunately this 
is 35 machines, but if it makes them stable at least we can use them.

Tom