misc/122295: bge Ierr rate increase (sinds 6.0R)

[Robin Gruyters]

>Number:         122295
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       bge Ierr rate increase (sinds 6.0R)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 31 14:10:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robin Gruyters
>Release:        6.3 (RELENG_6_3) and 7.0 (RELENG_7_0)
>Organization:
Betronic Nederland B.V.
>Environment:
FreeBSD backup 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #4: Mon Mar  3 11:48:30 CET 2008
FreeBSD server 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 23 07:35:39 CET 2008
FreeBSD monitor 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #2: Thu Feb 28 09:35:50 CET 2008
>Description:
Sinds the release of FreeBSD 6.0 we had issues with our Broadcom interfaces. (BCM5704. As of 7.0-Release it switched to Compaq NC7781)
We noticed a increase of incoming errors on the interfaces. (Ierrs)

backup:
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
bge0   1500 <Link#1>      00:0e:7f:ee:09:09  8127366  3259  5756298     0     0
bge1   1500 <Link#2>      00:0e:7f:ee:09:08   115174    11    49294     0     0

server:
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
bge0   1500 <Link#1>      00:12:79:d7:bb:99  3043080    57  2786146     0     0
bge1   1500 <Link#2>      00:12:79:d7:bb:98   299241    21   316275     0     0

monitor:
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
bge0   1500 <Link#1>      00:0b:cd:69:68:5a   168804    10     2223     0     0
bge1   1500 <Link#2>      00:0b:cd:69:68:4c 10388941   355        0     0     0

Last year we noticed it already and post a message on the FreeBSD-net mailinglist. Although they came with a patch, it didn't work for us.

http://marc.info/?t=116748642100001&r=1&w=2

Backup is connected to a 3com 4400 switch, server and monitor are both connected to a HP Procurve gigabit switch.

As for speed and duplex settings. For server and monitor both bge0 interfaces are set to 1000baseTX and full-duplex and all other interfaces (including backup) are set to 100baseTX and full-duplex.
The speed and duplex are also set on the switches.

I was hoping that this issue will be fixed in 7.0 release, but apparently it hasn't...

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