bge watchdog timeout errors FreeBSD 7.3

[Tom Judge]

On 10/08/2010 07:42 AM, a.smith at ukgrid.net wrote:
> Quoting Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>:
>
>>>
>>
>> Ok, there might be a couple of edge cases not handled in bge(4). I
>> believe things will improve over time but it depends on users
>> feedback and testing.
>
> On this particular server I really need to get it stable and leave.
> We are awaiting delivery of a Dell R610, I would think its likely it
> uses the same ethernet chipset so will be able to perform more testing
> on this. In theory we should have the server next week, will let you
> know,
>

The R610 has a NetXtream II chipset which uses the bce(4) driver.  If
you are going to doing heavy network traffic, or using jumbo frames I
would personally recommend you fit an Intel PCIe card to this server
before you put it in production.

Tom

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