Question about bce driver

[Josh Paetzel]

On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote:
> Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the
> > if_bce.c file with a slightly newer one that at least got the
> > driver working without hard lockups that required a reboot to
> > fix.  (Rather problematic on a remotely located web server.)
> >
> > If I download the latest driver from cvs (1.33), should I also
> > replace the if_bcefw.h and if_bcereg.h files with the newer
> > versions?  Will the NIC work without creating new problems? 
> > Right now I get an occasional "flapping" of the NIC link state
> > (down, up , down, up, etc.) but it at least works most of the
> > time.  I don't want to buildworld and get suprised by a
> > non-functioning NIC.  :-)
> >
> > If I use the newer versions, will I also need to use some other
> > newer files that are called by them?  Or would it be better to
> > upgrade the entire box to 6.2?
> >
> > FreeBSD www.stovebolt.com 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10
> > #2:
> >
> > grep bce /var/run/dmesg.boot
> > bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem
> > 0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
> > bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
> > miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
> > bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad
> > bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem
> > 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5
> > bce1: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
> > miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1
> > bce1: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ab
>
> Hi Paul,
>
>  From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months
> the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and
> there is a light-moderate network load.
>
> However if you want to use Jumbo frames the driver is very
> unstable.  I posted a patch against 6.2 which should fix some load
> based issues in the driver with standard frame sizes.
>
> Tom

Paul, I was never able to solve the link up/link down problems with 
the driver....I was using the drivers from STABLE for a while, and 
without jumbo frames everything worked somewhat ok most of the 
time....the ultimate solution was to just get the intel PCI-X card 
and stop using the broadcoms.


-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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