From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 4 15:22:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0C816A41F for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:22:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855AB43D45 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:22:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A815CDE; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:22:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45154-09; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:22:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-71-31.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.71.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB835CE3; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:22:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <43429E3B.1080900@mac.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:22:35 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Rosenblum References: <4341089F.7010504@jku.at> <20051003104548.GB70355@cell.sick.ru> <4341242F.9060602@jku.at> <20051003123210.GF70355@cell.sick.ru> <43426EF3.3020404@jku.at> <9CD8C672-1EF2-42FE-A61E-83DC684C893D@dragondata.com> <43429157.90606@jku.at> <4342987D.7000200@benswebs.com> In-Reply-To: <4342987D.7000200@benswebs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-(( X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:22:33 -0000 Benjamin Rosenblum wrote: > i have been messing with the em driver now for over a month, ive come to > the conclusion is a piece of crap. if you watch on this list every > other day you have someone saying there em driver is causing some sort > of error, this should not be on a nic from a company like intel. This is known as "selection bias". People who have em NICs, and who do not have problems, probably do not report regularly that their Intel 10/100/1000 NIC works fine, even though it does, at least for them. I've got a dozen or so machines with that hardware, and I haven't seen any problems with them. > im saddly contimplating moving over to fedora right now just so i can work > until 6.0 comes out (which i doubt will solve the problem anyway since > im using the drivers from 6.0 now and there not helping out either). If you want to use Fedora instead, go right ahead and do so... > somebody really needs to look into this and find out what the hell is > going on as i consider this a major problem right now. Are you volunteering? -- -Chuck