Just thought I'd update with what I'm doing on this issue; since this list is indexed, maybe this breadcrumb trail will help out another poor sap along the way.
Tomorrow, I plan to explore the following. I'm not sure why these would cause issues, but grasping at straws is good for the soul. -Checksum offloading (disable per http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2788&DwnldID=11848&strOSs=38&OSFullName=OS%20Independent&lang=eng) - TSO (disable per above link) - Polling (tweak and toggle per above link) - Try SMP Kernel (Why not?) - Update to latest BIOS (That document also mentions an 'update to the latest BIOS', and references the Linux Firmware Kit project. http://linuxfirmwarekit.org/ - the difference is only a revision code, but perhaps the fix is in there. SuperMicro's BIOS update release notes apparently require an NDA (Why!?)) Running OpenBSD latest (4.4), I discovered that I don't receive watchdog timeouts - instead, I am just seeing extremely poor performance (70kbps), where the onboard NICs deliver the expected near-wirespeed. Will update. Thank You, Nathan Eisenberg Sr. Systems Administrator Atlas Networks, LLC Atlas Networks is an Atlas Accelerator Company -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Eisenberg [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:32 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting Any thoughts on a next step in troubleshooting? I'm running out of ideas. Setting the port speed and duplex has no effect. Thank You, Nathan Eisenberg Sr. Systems Administrator Atlas Networks, LLC Atlas Networks is an Atlas Accelerator Company -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Nathan Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Admittedly, I did not expect to run into hardware/driver issues when I was > buying these NICs. :( In fact, that's exactly the reason I > went with Intel HW in the first place. > Usually that's an accurate assessment. This card is newer than the driver in FreeBSD 7.0 though. And it might not be network driver related at all, might be specific to some other hardware component in relation or combination with that card. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
