Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:26:06 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kernel config for networking Message-ID: <200712042326.lB4NQ6pW080576@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <4755D8BC.2060405@chuckr.org> References: <4755D8BC.2060405@chuckr.org>
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> it. Right now, I have a cheapy junk-pile card that probes as a dc0 > working, but my motherboard has two nfe's (nfe0 & nfe1) that show up on > the desmg. If I use ifconfig and activate them, the whole machine comes > to a complete halt (complete, neither console nor ssh sessions work, > machine is dead to the world apparently) and this starts whenever I use > ifconfig to turn up either nfe0 or nfe1. > > I've complained before, but a new possibility occurred to me, while I > was slowly reading the NOTES in /sys/i386/conf, that the networking > stuff is very sensitive to order. Is that still true? If I have a dc > device and a nfe device, do I need to be aware of anything as regards > the config file statement order? I always preserve kernel ordering same as GENERIC, costs little time & can save agro/ risk. If that doesnt fix it, maybe try nve for comparison (thoug of course nasty binary), here's an extravt from a mail: -------- Old driver was called NVE, - Ran at 100 Mbit/s but falsely reported running at 10. - Was based on common binary only code common to Microsoft Linux & BSD. For FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE New NFE driver available some months as a set of source patches, steadily improving. FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE (out soon) will have NFE & NVE inbuilt. ( FreeBSD-7.0-BETA3 has it already ) FreeBSD-6.3-RELEASE (out soon, same time as 7.0 ) will Not have NFE inbuilt ------- Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> has posted stuff to stable@ on nfe Message-id: <20071024084934.GF11234@cdnetworks.co.kr> BTW Search engine on www.freebsd.org hsnt been good for Message-IDs for months, google is better (Open & Net use google not own, maybe FreeBSD should) http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071027030921.GC25452 -- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Dump cigs 4 snuff.
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