From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 27 13:08:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CF916A401 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from crivens.terrorteam.de (crivens.terrorteam.de [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4685843D49 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:08:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.terrorteam.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC7A440D; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:08:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from crivens.terrorteam.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (crivens.unixoid.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47228-14; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.38.0.12] (unknown [213.238.63.253]) by crivens.terrorteam.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFFC3F2E; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4427E3B1.3020704@kernel32.de> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:08:01 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shih@math.jussieu.fr References: <20060327093011.GA21070@math.jussieu.fr> <4427B820.3000702@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> <20060327103720.GB21070@math.jussieu.fr> <200603270746.05169.joao@matik.com.br> <20060327110226.GC21070@math.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20060327110226.GC21070@math.jussieu.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixoid.de Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, JoaoBR Subject: Re: watchdog network card X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:08:04 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Albert Shih wrote: > Le 27/03/2006 à 07:46:04-0300, JoaoBR a écrit > >>is your card in polling mode ? > > > Well I don't known what's that mean. I just look the ifconfig's man...I > just use default config, and I don't think I use poling mode. > polling is described in polling(4) --> man 4 polling > I don't understand : You think is better to put my card in polling mode or > not ? > you can give it a try ifconfig $interface polling or ifconfig $interface -polling to disable polling... > >>It seems that sometimes and IRQ conflict is envolved and setting the >>IRQs/Slots better the timeout do go away or running the cards in polling mode >>also helps >> >>For FXP you may also try to download the microcode with `ifconfig fxp0 link0` > > > Sorry but I'm no verry good in this....what's that mean ? > according to what JoaoBR said and proven by the manpage (man fxp), it'll download the microcode of your Network Card (if a microcode exists). link0 Some chip revisions have loadable microcode which can be used to reduce the interrupt load on the host cpu. Not all boards have microcode support. Setting the link0 flag with ifconfig(8) will download the microcode to the chip if it is available. However, I'm not sure what you want to do with the microcode :) regards, ./Marian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEJ+OvgAq87Uq5FMsRAhkxAJ9gqiwY4+TIYWJfNOWmKHJh43g42gCffb0c +B6a114Ub3DBaLNqtWpmji4= =tNo6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----