Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > Vinny Abello wrote: >> 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 >> >> It appears I do not have the DEVICE_POLLING option set when I compiled >> my kernel on my one machine and on the second I am just using the >> GENERIC kernel. I'll recompile with this option set and try again and >> post my results to the list. >> >> Thanks! >> > > Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum > -rxcsum ).
Thanks for the suggestion, but... That's actually one of the first things I tried before writing to the list. No difference. I'm going to put an Intel Pro/100 card in shortly to see if the problem goes away to be certain the issue is definitely with the integrated Broadcom NICs. -- 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]"