Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:37:03 -0400 From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.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: <465EF9AF.3000108@tellurian.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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Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > Vinny Abello wrote: >> 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 >> >> 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 ). Thanks for the suggestion, but... That's actually one of the first things I tried before writing to the list. No difference. I'm going to put an Intel Pro/100 card in shortly to see if the problem goes away to be certain the issue is definitely with the integrated Broadcom NICs. -- 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
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