Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

[J.D. Bronson]

At 05:33 AM 05/31/2007, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote:
>>It appears I do not have the DEVICE_POLLING option set when I compiled
>>my kernel on my one machine and on the second I am just using the
>>GENERIC kernel. I'll recompile with this option set and try again and
>>post my results to the list.
>>Thanks!
>
>Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 
>-txcsum -rxcsum ).
>
>--
>Sten Daniel Soersdal


What is the proper syntax for this in /etc/rc.conf?

ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.1.1 -txcsum -rxcsum netmask 255.255.255.0"

??

Ironically, this is also recommended under Solaris 10 for the same NIC:

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If you have a bge interface (eg, SunFire V210), then you may have
NAT problems with ipfilter unless you add the following to
/etc/system:

set ip:dohwcksum=0

This turns off hardware checksumming, which is on by default with
bge interfaces.
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-JD