Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:19:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em driver input errors Message-ID: <538232.7388.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200909091352.n89DqQDx079631@lava.sentex.ca>
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=0A=0A--- On Wed, 9/9/09, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:=0A=0A> From:= Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>=0A> Subject: Re: em driver input errors=0A> = To: "Barney Cordoba" <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>=0A> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd= .org=0A> Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 9:55 AM=0A> At 07:47 AM 9/9/20= 09, Barney Cordoba=0A> wrote:=0A> >=A0 =A0 www.sentex.net/mike > > > >=0A> = > > The 8241GI may not be able to handle full gigabit=0A> flows if > its on= ly > wired at 32-bit 33Mhz, which is=0A> only capable of bursting to > 1Gb/= s. With > a single=0A> NIC it likely just fine, but it a bridged or > firew= all=0A> type > config you may just be seeing bus failures. >=0A> > Barney I= meant 82541EI...Same answer.=0A> =0A> =0A> Both of the NICs on this mother= board are wired in.=A0 I=0A> will see if there is a spare pcie slot and try= a different=0A> em nic.=A0 Its also a single nic. No bridge or forwarding= =0A> as all the packets are destined to the machine itself.=0A> =0A> =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 ---Mike=0A> =0A> > ____________________________________________= ___=0A> > freebsd-net@freebsd.org=0A> mailing list=0A> > http://lists.freeb= sd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net=0A> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A> =0A> ----------------------------= ----------------------------------------=0A> Mike Tancsa,=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0=0A> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 tel +1 = 519 651 3400=0A> Sentex Communications,=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A> =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A> =A0 mike@sentex.net=0A> Providing Internet since 19= 94=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 www.sentex.net=0A> Cambridge,= Ontario Canada=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=0A=0AA quick test would be to force it t= o 100Mb/s to see if the problem goes=0Aaway. I see you are using em1 which= implies another NIC...if you have=0Atraffic on the other lan its not much = different than=0A=0AAlso, realize that most pciX busses are shared. So your= disk and other=0Adevices may be sharing. Its really derilect for these MB = manufacturers=0Ato sell dual gig nic systems and them wire them to a slow b= us. But its=0Awhat they do.=0A=0ABarney=0A=0A=0A
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