Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

[Sten Daniel Soersdal]

Vinny Abello wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> Vinny Abello wrote:
>>  >         I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss
>>  > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the
>>  > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs.
>>
>> Have you enabled polling on the interface?
>>
>> I experienced a similar problem on a HP Proliant DL360
>> running 6.2-stable (RELENG_6 of a few weeks ago).
>> The problem disappeared upon "ifconfig bge0 polling".
>>
>> Best regards
>>    Oliver
> 
> It appears I do not have the DEVICE_POLLING option set when I compiled
> my kernel on my one machine and on the second I am just using the
> GENERIC kernel. I'll recompile with this option set and try again and
> post my results to the list.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Try disabling hardware assisted checksumming. ( ifconfig bge0 -txcsum 
-rxcsum ).

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Sten Daniel Soersdal