Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 5/30/07, Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com> wrote:
> Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> > On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote:
> >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or
> >> ifconfig
> >> > doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering if it is
> >> > supported by the driver on this chipset.
> >>
> >> You need to enable "options DEVICE_POLLING" in your kernel.
> >>
> >> See polling(4).
> >>
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> >
> > I have it in my kernel, do I need to add polling in rc.conf too?
>
> OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and
> it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking
> with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue
> I wrote about originally. I still have the same loss. :(
>
> Any other ideas? Does anyone run a PowerEdge 2650 with FreeBSD 6.0 or
> later that's on this list?
>
> Thanks!
>
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I saw bge code changed in RELENG_6 few days ago, I would recommend
that you csup and recompile your kernel as well.


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