Diagnosing packet loss

[Michael Sierchio]

Matthew suggests turning off hardware checksums - it won't hurt to
give that a try:

ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX mediaopt -txcsum


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster <kjkoster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [kjkoster at saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0
>> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>
>>  options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
>>        ether 00:e0:81:32:ed:b4
>>        inet 91.196.169.165 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 91.196.169.167
>>        inet 91.196.169.166 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 91.196.169.166
>>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
>> <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>)
>>        status: active
>> [kjkoster at saffron ~]$ fgrep bge0 /etc/rc.conf
>> ifconfig_bge0="inet 91.196.169.165 netmask 255.255.255.248"
>> ifconfig_bge0_alias0="91.196.169.166 netmask 255.255.255.255"
>>
>> That broadcast address and netmask look wrong for sure.
>>
>> Should I just change that to 255.255.255.248 as well?
>
> No, that is correct.  Leave your alias alone if you want it to continue to
> work.
>
> --
> Adam Vande More
>