--On 01 June 2005 00:37 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Kent, I think it's the Broadcom<->switch connection. You said you changed switches - but I'm betting you just swapped in another Foundry. We have had trouble with the Broadcom gig E adapters under WinXP and certain switches. Try swapping in a 3com or some such. And certainly also try the system on a 100BaseT port as well.
FWIW - we've got a bunch of the DL360 G4's and found a very nasty problem with the way the onboard Broadcom reacted to our HP switches - by default we forced the NIC's to 100Mbit/FDX. This resulted in a system that could send 'small' packets fine (e.g. dns) - but bogged down on anything large [it'd work, but not fun getting about 6k/sec for some transfers).
After fiddling with the switch ports, putting the NIC's back to 'auto-select' fixed it - which is ironic, as we have a bunch of Intel Pro1000's that need exactly the opposite to work properly [i.e. we _have_ to lock them at 100/FDX to work with the switches].
I love 'standards' :) -Karl _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
