Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

On 5/30/07, Vinny Abello <vinny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote:
>> > Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or
>> ifconfig
>> > doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering if it is
>> > supported by the driver on this chipset.
>>
>> You need to enable "options DEVICE_POLLING" in your kernel.
>>
>> See polling(4).
>>
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>
> I have it in my kernel, do I need to add polling in rc.conf too?

OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and
it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking
with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue
I wrote about originally. I still have the same loss. :(

Any other ideas? Does anyone run a PowerEdge 2650 with FreeBSD 6.0 or
later that's on this list?

Thanks!

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I saw bge code changed in RELENG_6 few days ago, I would recommend
that you csup and recompile your kernel as well.


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