Re: [D800] Dell D800 (FBSD 5.2-release) Broadcom BCM5705M MTU/Jumbo Problem

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 01/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:59:38 -0600
    To: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
    
    

    Mike Hunter wrote:

    >Hi everybody,
    >
    >I'm going to be trying to get gigabit throughput between my laptop (Dell
    >Latitude D800 running 5.2-release) and a shuttle box running FreeBSD 5.1
    >(not in front of me at the moment.) As part of the process, I attempted
    >to increase the frame size on my laptop, only to be greeted with
    >disappointment:
    >
    >celeste# ifconfig bge0
    >bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    > options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
    > ether 00:0b:db:99:d6:06
    > media: Ethernet 1000baseTX <full-duplex> (none)
    > status: no carrier
    >celeste# ifconfig bge0 mtu 9000
    >ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument
    >celeste# ifconfig bge0 mtu 1501
    >ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): Invalid argument
    >celeste# ifconfig bge0 mtu 1500
    >celeste#
    >
    >The C file talks about being able to do jumbo frames when the mtu is big
    >enough...anybody know what I'm missing? My card is a "Broadcom BCM5705M"
    >and I'm running FreeBSD 5.2-release. When I asked google, it mostly
    >pointed me at comments in if_bge.c talking about jumbo frames :|
    >
    >

    As a data point, my BCM5702 (Dell D600) works fine:
    # ifconfig -a
    bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 9000
            options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
            inet6 fe80::20b:dbff:fea3:f9a1%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
            inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
            ether 00:0b:db:a3:f9:a1
            media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
            status: no carrier

    Eric

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