Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 06:14:15 -0500 From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@sixcompanies.com> To: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650 Message-ID: <200705311114.l4VBEGvC000846@cheyenne.sixcompanies.com> In-Reply-To: <465EA47B.7050400@gmail.com> References: <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de> <465DB6C5.30407@tellurian.com> <465EA47B.7050400@gmail.com>
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At 05:33 AM 05/31/2007, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: >>It appears I do not have the DEVICE_POLLING option set when I compiled >>my kernel on my one machine and on the second I am just using the >>GENERIC kernel. I'll recompile with this option set and try again and >>post my results to the list. >>Thanks! > >Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 >-txcsum -rxcsum ). > >-- >Sten Daniel Soersdal What is the proper syntax for this in /etc/rc.conf? ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.1.1 -txcsum -rxcsum netmask 255.255.255.0" ?? Ironically, this is also recommended under Solaris 10 for the same NIC: =========================== If you have a bge interface (eg, SunFire V210), then you may have NAT problems with ipfilter unless you add the following to /etc/system: set ip:dohwcksum=0 This turns off hardware checksumming, which is on by default with bge interfaces. ========================== -JD
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