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From: Barry Friedman <friedman@www1.emax.ca>
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Subject: bge interface configuration caused throttling : Solved
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OS:  FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2
Machine:  HP Proliant DL380G4
Network adapter: HP NC7782 Gigabit Server Adapter

Apparently the use of configuration directives :

  ifconfig_bge0="inet xx.xx.xx.xx  netmask 255.255.240.0 media 100baseTX 
  mediaopt full-duplex"  

caused  incoming network traffic to be throttled to a trickle.  When 
the media and mediaopt parameters were removed the interface worked 
perfectly.  Is this gotcha a bug in the bge driver and if so how
should it be reported?

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Barry Friedman                         
Emax Computer Systems Inc., 480 Tweedsmuir Ave., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9
bfriedman@emax.ca    Phone: (613) 725-3198  Fax: 725-0298