NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

Chris snagit at cbpratt.prohosting.com
Tue Sep 12 12:51:28 PDT 2006


On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Peter A. Giessel wrote:

> On 2006/09/12 10:52, Chris seems to have typed:
>> These are coming out of the boot as:
>> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003>
>> The computer is a Tyan s4884 quad opteron (duals).
>
>
> I have a Tyan S2882G3NR-D with:
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003>  
> mem 0xfc9c0000-0xfc9cffff,0xfc9b0000-0xfc9bffff irq 24 at device  
> 9.0 on pci2
> running on the AMD64 version of FreeBSD:
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 #4: Sun Jul  2 22:27:35 AKDT 2006
> (dual Opteron 246's)
>
> Its been stable since the update to 6.1 (went from 6.0 directly to  
> 6.1-p2).

This is encouraging. I will forego the cost of the Intel NICs and  
just go to 6.1-p6. Thank you very much.




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