From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 17:36:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 C53A916A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (host-84-9-223-82.bulldogdsl.com [84.9.223.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EB943D45 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14E6FD021 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.devrandom.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 46815-08 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail.devrandom.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44240FD01D for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 192.168.0.1 (proxying for 192.168.1.175) (SquirrelMail authenticated user chris@chrishowells.co.uk) by webmail.devrandom.org.uk with HTTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:16 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:16 -0000 (GMT) From: "Chris Howells" To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at devrandom.org.uk Subject: Which motherboards work well with em(4)? 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: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:36:20 -0000 After about 9 months of messing around with two servers with em(4) gigabit cards and having continual problems with them randomly stopping working, particularly under reasonably heavy load, I think I have finally come to the conclusion that they don't work very well with the Asus A7V8X-X Socket A motherboard. [1] I think it might therefore be time to try a different motherboard. Can any body recommend a board that works well with em(4)? I'm looking for a socket A board so I can keep the current Duron 1800, or possibly a Socket 754 or 939. Don't really care about the rest of the specifications though price is quite important (don't want onboard RAID or SCSI or anything fancy). Thanks for any advice. [1 - I've tried everything: various patches; FreeBSD 4, 5 and 6; changing the interrupt mode in the BIOS from ACIC to PIC; disabling ACPI...] -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- howells@kde.org Web: http://www.kde.org.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt Developer: http://www.kde.org