Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:24:55 +0100 From: "Catalin Miclaus" <catalin@starcomms.com> To: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: New Kernel with Dell PE2950 Message-ID: <3A0AA7018522134597ED63B3B794C92A020ECF02@STA-HQ-S001.starcomms.local> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0806041800030.2351@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <2cd0a0da0806040803g7eae3b2bvfb7fcf7bedd9afb8@mail.gmail.com> <3A0AA7018522134597ED63B3B794C92A020ECE7D@STA-HQ-S001.starcomms.local> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0806041800030.2351@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: D Hill [mailto:d.hill@yournetplus.com]=20 Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:06 PM To: Catalin Miclaus Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: RE: New Kernel with Dell PE2950 On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 at 18:44 +0100, catalin@starcomms.com confabulated: > BTW....bce/bge drivers has known issues that leads to 'watchdog timeout' > NIC reset. > I have same some 6-8 servers with your hardware configuration and we > have ordered them with Intel Gigabit cards especially to avoid above > issue. > Use bce/bge NICs for low traffic interfaces if possible. How can I see what you are referring to with the bge interfaces? We have a=20 PE6850 that has two bge interfaces. The server's roll is a spam filter=20 server and processes close to 6.5 million messages per day. However, I don't have the watchdog daemon running. I don't remember exactly at which bandwidth consumption level the watchdog timeout error starts appearing. Somewhere below 100Mbps. You can see it if you enable the server to e-mail you the default daily security report or from /var/log/messages file. Jan 4 08:46:00 lb1 kernel: bge1: watchdog timeout -- resetting Jan 4 08:46:00 lb1 kernel: bge1: link state changed to DOWN Jan 4 08:46:02 lb1 kernel: bge1: link state changed to UP BTW....watchdog is a kernel facility and it is enabled by default. You can run a separate process if you want to control it (man watchdog). Best Regards Catalin Miclaus Network/Security ISP-Data Starcomms Ltd.
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