Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 13:34:42 -0400 From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650 Message-ID: <465DB5B2.8040707@tellurian.com> In-Reply-To: <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200705300934.l4U9Y7eJ022617@lurza.secnetix.de>
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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
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.
[root@test] ~# ifconfig bge0 polling
ifconfig: polling: Invalid argument
[root@test] ~# ifconfig bge0
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
inet 216.182.1.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 216.182.1.255
ether 00:0d:56:ba:73:bf
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
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