Vivek Khera wrote:
On our PE800, I had to disable the bge on BIOS and plug in an em-based NIC card. Made a world of difference in system stability and performance -- it is actually usable now :-)
On our Dell PE2950 units, we had to do the same thing (disable and replace the Broadcom interfaces), and that was running Windows Server 2k3. The problem really seems to be flakiness of the chips or firmware, not necessarily flakiness in the drivers for FreeBSD. Maybe it's both, I don't know.
My point is that Broadcom cards have had some serious problems on other platforms too, and not just recently. Other NIC brands have never given us nearly as much trouble.
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