Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:23:29 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "Vinny Abello" <vinny@tellurian.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650 Message-ID: <499c70c0705301123w6c15aab2ke92c12343ced7629@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <465DC050.8020707@tellurian.com> References: <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de> <465DB5B2.8040707@tellurian.com> <20070530174631.GA15795@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <499c70c0705301113n58588719j6fb35154701f3cb1@mail.gmail.com> <465DC050.8020707@tellurian.com>
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On 5/30/07, Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com> wrote: > Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: > >> > 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. > >> > >> You need to enable "options DEVICE_POLLING" in your kernel. > >> > >> See polling(4). > >> > >> -- > >> | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at > >> parodius.com | > >> | Parodius Networking > >> http://www.parodius.com/ | > >> | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, > >> USA | > >> | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: > >> 4BD6C0CB | > >> > > > > I have it in my kernel, do I need to add polling in rc.conf too? > > OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and > it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking > with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue > I wrote about originally. I still have the same loss. :( > > Any other ideas? Does anyone run a PowerEdge 2650 with FreeBSD 6.0 or > later that's on this list? > > Thanks! > > -- > > Vinny Abello > Network Engineer > vinny@tellurian.com > (973)940-6100 > PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A > > Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection > http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN > > "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear" > -- Mark Twain I saw bge code changed in RELENG_6 few days ago, I would recommend that you csup and recompile your kernel as well. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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