New bxe(4) Driver for Broadcom BCM57710 & BCM57711 Devices

[John-Mark Gurney]

David Christensen wrote this message on Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 14:13 -0700:
> > Thanks for the drivers, but at work we have some issues w/ the driver
> > on an HP Blade.  We could do some basic pings, but when trying to
> > pass DNS traffic, it failed.  Turning off both rxcsum and txcsum made
> > the driver work.  If I only turned one or the other off, DNS traffic
> > would still not work.
> 
> Are you using Flex-10?  If so, can you tell me how the 57711E is configured?

No, we are not using Flex-10.  This is on a HP Proliant BL460C G6
Blade.  We just installed FreeBSD on the system and setup an inet
address on it.  Here's an ifconfig from it after disabling rxcsum/txcsum:
bxe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=1b8<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
        ether 00:26:55:xx:xx:xx
        inet 192.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 192.x.x.x
        inet6 fe80::x:x:x:x%bxe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>)
        status: active

If there are settings you want me to get from the bios screen, I guess
I can go into it, but I just added "-rxcsum -txcsum" to the ifconfig line
in rc.conf, and now the system comes up fine and dosen't hang in sendmail
anymore (and DNS also works).

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