From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 20:27:42 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 8622916A420 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165A943D45 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f25so1843636pyf for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:27:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ovsu21cVG7vlimJYg41PH97x46yioIq4RekPfuw15OHkq3X+GWFLl5Dnvks//Z2YXWtMpv76LuWpUAo9DYxV/c/Nb9JwXhj3G4gNzPWfRNaRaw8TwfuI7ndr1FPlqoEwgWeG2Eed5vFAUFLqD1q+02cfSmy+1tnfMDNWuiAnwlE= Received: by 10.35.111.7 with SMTP id o7mr252525pym; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.28.4 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:04:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2a41acea0602201104v1c160788rf9db6bb5c96e7b34@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:04:10 -0800 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Chris Howells" In-Reply-To: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:42 -0000 On 2/20/06, Chris Howells wrote: > After about 9 months of messing around with two servers with em(4) gigabi= t > 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 Socke= t > A motherboard. [1] > > I think it might therefore be time to try a different motherboard. Can an= y > 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...] I can't really help you with the AMD motherboard, dont get much chance to work with them at Intel :) However, I wondered exactly what NIC you have? And have you tried taking the tip of tree driver, Scott and others have bee= n hard at work tweaking it. I can't swear that we are 100% yet, but you should give that a try before a whole motherboard swap :) Cheers, Jack