Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:56:37 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> Cc: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about bce driver Message-ID: <46958A55.4020704@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <46956A44.3000304@tomjudge.com> References: <BDD239C660ED0435A14C5A76@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <4694940D.9050408@tomjudge.com> <200707111230.24975.josh@tcbug.org> <46956A44.3000304@tomjudge.com>
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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"
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