On 29/06/12 11:07, Paul Gear wrote: > ... > Server hardware: IBM x3550, Xeon E5405 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 2 x 300 GB 10K > RPM SAS HD in hardware RAID 1, 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 > 1000Base-T (B2) > ... > Hope that all makes sense. My gut/experience tells me this is a NIC > driver bug/deficiency. This hardware is 100% stable on Linux, but there > really aren't any Linux distributions that will do what we want without > some customisation, so the client would prefer to get pfSense working. > Any suggestions on where to go next?
Just an update on this for anyone who cares (and anyone who can do anything about the Broadcom driver): i reinstalled the same system on ESXi 5 and ran the same version of pfSense as a VM with individual vNICs for each VLAN, and it has been flawless. Even pings to the LAN gateway which were unreliable before are now solid. It's disappointing that FreeBSD's Broadcom drivers are so far behind VMware & Linux - is there anything we can do (as non-kernel hackers) to help get this very common chipset well-supported? Would throwing some $$$ at a pfSense or FreeBSD developer be useful? Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
