Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Sten Daniel Soersdal
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

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 05:33 AM 05/31/2007, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: 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!

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:14:15AM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: What is the proper syntax for this in /etc/rc.conf? ifconfig_bge0=inet 192.168.1.1 -txcsum -rxcsum netmask 255.255.255.0 That should work, according to the syntax in the manpage. If it doesn't, try reversing the options (put

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
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

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
Vinny Abello wrote: 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

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/31/07, Vinny Abello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vinny Abello wrote: 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

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 5/31/07, Vinny Abello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vinny Abello wrote: 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

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: I've installed an Intel Pro/100 adapter in the Dell PowerEdge 2650. This is an Intel 82550 chipset. The packet loss problem is completely gone when using this NIC in the server, so it is definitely related to the bge driver and this chipset BCM5703 or

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
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

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
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

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
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

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: 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. You need to enable options DEVICE_POLLING in your

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: 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.

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or ifconfig doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering if it is

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/30/07, Vinny Abello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or ifconfig doesn't

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread security
Vinny Abello wrote: OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue I wrote about originally. I still have the same loss. :(

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
security wrote: Vinny Abello wrote: OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue I wrote about originally. I still have

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:49:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: All suggestions welcomed: Your mbuf counts look OK. I don't see anything there which looks like a problem. If you had packet loss caused by mbuf exhaustion, your FreeBSD console log would show something. I've some couple questions:

Re: Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:49:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: All suggestions welcomed: Your mbuf counts look OK. I don't see anything there which looks like a problem. If you had packet loss caused by mbuf exhaustion, your FreeBSD console log would show something.

Packet Loss w/bge BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-29 Thread Vinny Abello
Hello all, 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. I thought it was the server at first but I did a clean install of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on another 2650