em interfaces supermicro X9SCM-F board

[Miroslav Lachman]

Sebastian Stach wrote:
> I just need to run a tool like iperf and let it run. After about 1-2 hours my nic will just hang
> without any messages. I can't even ping the machine anymore. I also installed Solaris to check
> if it's maybe a FreeBSD problem but it's the same there.
>
> The support told me that they know about problems with the nics and the BIOS version 2.0
> but that the new update should fix it.
>
> Which BIOS version do you have?

The board had BIOS 1.1a with build date 2011-09-28 so I updated it to 
version 2.0 with build date 2012-05-08.

I am preparing iperf test so I will let you know tomorrow about results.

One question - are you using dedicated management port or shared with 
Intel NIC?

Miroslav Lachman


> Am 05.06.2012 um 22:16 schrieb Miroslav Lachman:
>
>> There is a differenc between X9SCM-F and X9SCA-F. The SCM version has 82579V and 82574L NIC, but X9SCA-F has both NICs 82574L.
>> And as I read about some problems with 82579V on the net, I bought X9SCA-F few weeks ago.
>> I didn't notice any problem.
>>
>> Can you describe the conditions when you have some network problems so I can do some tests?
>>
>> I am running FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE for testing, not heavily loaded.
>>
>> Miroslav Lachman