> 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?
FreeBSD's driver apparently is much improved in later releases (remember, pfSense is based on 7.3, which is quite a few years old now), so it's just a matter of waiting until pfSense 2.1(???) comes out, based on FreeBSD 8, or 9, or whatever the next evolutionary step is. I'm not sure it's feasible to back-port the newer drivers, there have been many changes between FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE and FreeBSD-CURRENT. FWIW, if you ran a modern Dell server under Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1, you'd have problems, too. Feel free to support the pfSense project financially, however, as will undoubtedly help things along in a general fashion. (BTW: I have the same issues with Broadcom LOMs on a few servers - I now give up at the first sign of problems and install a dual-port Intel PCI/PCIe/PCI-X NIC and I've not had any problems with those. -Adam Thompson [email protected] _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
