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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ifconfig bge0 polling ifconfig: polling: Invalid argument [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# 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 -- Vinny Abello Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"