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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2007 11:34:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, vinny@tellurian.com
Subject:   Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650
Message-ID:  <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <465C73DB.3040500@tellurian.com>

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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

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