On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Brian McCann <bjmcc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This isn't a Dell PoweEdge, but at least this is two platforms it's > happening on now. Strangely, my VMWare virtual machines that use the > em driver do not have this problem. > > TSO is disabled. > > I just tried adding "up" to the $ifconfig_emX lines in rc.conf, and it > didn't help. > > What I discovered (and I'm still playing with a bit), is that it has > to do with checksum offloading. If you run "ifconfig emX -rxcsum", > the interface comes back to life. I just added "-rxcsum" to the > $ifconfig_emX lines in rc.conf, and I can run "/etc/rc.d/netif > restart" now, and the NIC continues to work fine. > > I tried emailing the folks @ Intel that are mentioned in the man page > for the em driver, but the mail bounced... > > --Brian > > -- Brian (and everyone else reading the thread), I just found this...the patch was submitted some time ago, but somehow didn't make it into 8.1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141843 . I'm trying it now. I'll keep you posted. --Brian -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
