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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:51:12 -0700
From:      Chris <snagit@cbpratt.prohosting.com>
To:        Peter A. Giessel <pgiessel@mac.com>
Cc:        freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release
Message-ID:  <3C62EB56-BD65-4071-9A12-2F8E4A462944@cbpratt.prohosting.com>
In-Reply-To: <45070407.9000807@mac.com>
References:  <1DCE50F2-FFCA-479D-9E68-11936F0076DB@cbpratt.prohosting.com> <45070407.9000807@mac.com>

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On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Peter A. Giessel wrote:

> On 2006/09/12 10:52, Chris seems to have typed:
>> These are coming out of the boot as:
>> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003>
>> The computer is a Tyan s4884 quad opteron (duals).
>
>
> I have a Tyan S2882G3NR-D with:
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003>  
> mem 0xfc9c0000-0xfc9cffff,0xfc9b0000-0xfc9bffff irq 24 at device  
> 9.0 on pci2
> running on the AMD64 version of FreeBSD:
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 #4: Sun Jul  2 22:27:35 AKDT 2006
> (dual Opteron 246's)
>
> Its been stable since the update to 6.1 (went from 6.0 directly to  
> 6.1-p2).

This is encouraging. I will forego the cost of the Intel NICs and  
just go to 6.1-p6. Thank you very much.





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