Question about bce driver

[Julian Elischer]

Tom Judge wrote:
> Josh Paetzel wrote:
>> On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>>
> 
> We have basically come to the same conclusion today,  unfortunately this 
> is 35 machines, but if it makes them stable at least we can use them.

I'm not seeing any problems on our 2950s running 6.1 plus some backpatches.

> 
> Tom
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