Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 13:34:42 -0400 From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650 Message-ID: <465DB5B2.8040707@tellurian.com> In-Reply-To: <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > Vinny Abello wrote: > > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss > > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the > > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. > > Have you enabled polling on the interface? > > I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360 > running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago). > The problem disappeared upon "ifconfig bge0 polling". > > Best regards > Oliver Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or ifconfig doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering if it is supported by the driver on this chipset. [root@test] ~# ifconfig bge0 polling ifconfig: polling: Invalid argument [root@test] ~# ifconfig bge0 bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> inet 216.182.1.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 216.182.1.255 ether 00:0d:56:ba:73:bf media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active -- Vinny Abello Network Engineer vinny@tellurian.com (973)940-6100 PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear" -- Mark Twain
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