Panics and freeze using age0

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:34:43PM -0800, Gabriele Cecchetti wrote:
 > Pyun YongHyeon ha scritto:
 > [...]
 > 
 > >Would you be more elaborate on this issue? Does it mean you have
 > >to manually up/down game with ifconfig(8) after boot?
 > 
 > Yes, I need to do that.
 > Sometimes happen that even if the interface
 > is showed during the bootlog, then it is not showed by ifconfig.
 > Typing ifconfig again show the interface.
 > Then I've to down/up the interface and/or ping outside, like the 
 > interface was sleeping.
 > 

Would you show me dmesg output?

 > > > Anyone with similar experience ?
 > > > age0 driver is well tested for production enviroment or not ?
 > >
 > [...]
 > > > Is better to buy another Intel card and going on using em0 driver ?
 > >
 > >Remember, all hardwares supported by age(4) are for consumer
 > >motherboards. Even if L1 has much better performance/design than
 > >that of its successor, L1E, it's still not for server market.
 > >The same is true for em(4). Since there are too many variants you
 > >may have to choose the best hardware model that is suited for your
 > >workload.
 > The other card I'm using is:
 > em0 at pci0:5:1:0: class=0x020000 card=0x13768086 chip=0x107c8086 rev=0x05 
 > hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
 >     device     = 'PRO/1000 GT'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 > 
 > So, which card is the best buy for the server market ?

Maybe other users in this list can answer that.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon