Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

[Vinny Abello]

security wrote:
> Vinny Abello wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>>   
> Have you checked your buffer usage with "netstat -m"?  My apologies if
> this was already suggested

All suggestions welcomed:

258/267/525 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
256/134/390/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
256/128 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache)
0/0/0/0 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
0/0/0/0 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
0/0/0/0 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
576K/334K/911K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
0/4/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max)
0 requests for sfbufs denied
0 requests for sfbufs delayed
0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
0 calls to protocol drain routines

I'm not sure how to interpret the information or if any of it is
indicating a problem where buffers need adjustment.

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