Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

[Oliver Fromme]

Vinny Abello wrote:
 >         I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss
 > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the
 > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs.

Have you enabled polling on the interface?

I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360
running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago).
The problem disappeared upon "ifconfig bge0 polling".

Best regards
   Oliver

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