From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 01:56:18 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 556F916A400 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:56:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outQ.internet-mail-service.net (outQ.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.240]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAF413C45A for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:56:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:56:17 -0700 Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (nat.ironport.com [63.251.108.100]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565A9125ADD; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46958A55.4020704@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:56:37 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Judge References: <4694940D.9050408@tomjudge.com> <200707111230.24975.josh@tcbug.org> <46956A44.3000304@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <46956A44.3000304@tomjudge.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Josh Paetzel , Paul Schmehl , freebsd-net@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:56:18 -0000 Tom Judge wrote: > 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. I'm not seeing any problems on our 2950s running 6.1 plus some backpatches. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"