I noticed the Ethernet flow control is enabled - or seems to be? Perhaps DISABLE Ethernet flow control (rxpause/txpause) in your box AND the switch.
________________________________ From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:26 PM To: Kees Jan Koster Cc: Michael Sierchio; Gary Gatten; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diagnosing packet loss On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster <kjkos...@gmail.com<mailto:kjkos...@gmail.com>> wrote: [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0 bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE> ether 00:e0:81:32:ed:b4 inet 91.196.169.165 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 91.196.169.167 inet 91.196.169.166 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 91.196.169.166 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>) status: active [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ fgrep bge0 /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_bge0="inet 91.196.169.165 netmask 255.255.255.248" ifconfig_bge0_alias0="91.196.169.166 netmask 255.255.255.255" That broadcast address and netmask look wrong for sure. Should I just change that to 255.255.255.248 as well? No, that is correct. Leave your alias alone if you want it to continue to work. -- Adam Vande More <font size="1"> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> </div> "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." </font> _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"