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Subject: Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Vinny Abello wrote:
>  >         I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss
>  > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the
>  > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs.
> 
> Have you enabled polling on the interface?
> 
> I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360
> running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago).
> The problem disappeared upon "ifconfig bge0 polling".
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver

Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or ifconfig
doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering if it is
supported by the driver on this chipset.

[root@test] ~# ifconfig bge0 polling
ifconfig: polling: Invalid argument

[root@test] ~# ifconfig bge0
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
        inet 216.182.1.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 216.182.1.255
        ether 00:0d:56:ba:73:bf
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

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