Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:39:48 +0100 From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Subject: Re: Question about bce driver Message-ID: <46956A44.3000304@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <200707111230.24975.josh@tcbug.org> References: <BDD239C660ED0435A14C5A76@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <4694940D.9050408@tomjudge.com> <200707111230.24975.josh@tcbug.org>
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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
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