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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:40:50 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   bge + hardware checksum hangs
Message-ID:  <20020128124050.A13399@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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It looks like the TCP recieve checksum issues weren't the only ones we
had to contend with.  I've got a couple of new iXsystems 2650's with
3Com 3C996-T's in them and while running cvsup I get long hangs usually
resulting in a lost connection.  When the machines recover I see
watchdog timeout messages in /var/log/messages.  The current system
configuration is a bit weird in that I've got the nic hooked up to a
10/100 HUB so I'm currently running 100 half-duplex.

Acting on the theory that HW checksuming had already failed in some
situations, I modified the BGE_CSUM_FEATURES define to 0 and so far things
seem to be working.  I'm in the middle of a ports cvsup and I completed
a cvsup over the 4.5 branch and tagging without a hitch.  This seems to
imply that at least TCP checksuming is broken across the board.

The really odd thing is that I haven't had any real problems with local
connections, only cvsups and possiably one hang due to a whole lot of
console output over ssh.  I've been able to do 10 minute long netperf
runs in both TCP_STREAM and TCP_RR modes to local hosts without any
hangs.

Does anyone have any ideas other them the current disabling of hardware
checksuming?  That's probably fine for now, but it's really going to
suck on the core NFS server for this cluster once we're up and running.

-- Brooks

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