bge watchdog timeout errors FreeBSD 7.3

a.smith at ukgrid.net a.smith at ukgrid.net
Fri Oct 8 13:48:53 UTC 2010


Quoting Tom Judge <tom at tomjudge.com>:

>
> The R610 has a NetXtream II chipset which uses the bce(4) driver.  If
> you are going to doing heavy network traffic, or using jumbo frames I
> would personally recommend you fit an Intel PCIe card to this server
> before you put it in production.
>

Ah, ok thanks for the feedback. I dont have any intention of using  
jumbo frames, but I expect it to work on a gigabit switch port. Do you  
have personal experience that these or bad, or what is the reason not  
to use this chipset?

thanks Andy.





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