em interface slow down on 8.0R

Tue Jan 26 17:00:36 UTC 2010

Is it advisable to patch 8.0-RELEASE kernel sources with the latest
(CURRENT) em driver (i.e., src/sys/dev/e1000)? It looks like there are some
updates to the driver since 8.0-RELEASE that may fix some problems?

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Joshua Boyd <boydjd at jbip.net> wrote:

> I've been having a similar problem with my network dropping completely on
> my
> 8-STABLE gateway/firewall/fileserver. My setup is a little different, as I
> have re0 and ral0 bridged for LAN, and em0 for WAN. I've just turned off TX
> checksum offloading to see if that makes any difference.
> \\
>