Dear Mike, >> I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all >> traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, different >> switch port, different ethernet interface on the machine), but the problems >> remain. > > What is the output of > sysctl -a dev.bge
See below. > Can you show the stats and config of the switch port its plugged into as > well ? It is not configurable. No serial port, so I guess this is really a glorified hub. [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ uptime 8:27AM up 1 day, 1:18, 1 user, load averages: 0.50, 0.45, 0.43 [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ sysctl -a dev.bge.0 dev.bge.0.%desc: Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x002003 dev.bge.0.%driver: bge dev.bge.0.%location: slot=9 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.GOLA.GLAN dev.bge.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x14e4 device=0x1648 subvendor=0x14e4 subdevice=0x1644 class=0x020000 dev.bge.0.%parent: pci2 dev.bge.0.forced_collapse: 0 dev.bge.0.forced_udpcsum: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.FramesDroppedDueToFilters: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.DmaWriteQueueFull: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.DmaWriteHighPriQueueFull: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.NoMoreRxBDs: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.InputDiscards: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.InputErrors: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.RecvThresholdHit: 3680296 dev.bge.0.stats.DmaReadQueueFull: 3810 dev.bge.0.stats.DmaReadHighPriQueueFull: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.SendDataCompQueueFull: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.RingSetSendProdIndex: 707120 dev.bge.0.stats.RingStatusUpdate: 4275217 dev.bge.0.stats.Interrupts: 4275218 dev.bge.0.stats.AvoidedInterrupts: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.SendThresholdHit: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.ifHCInOctets: 772506284 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.Fragments: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.UnicastPkts: 776204 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.MulticastPkts: 728 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.FCSErrors: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.AlignmentErrors: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.xonPauseFramesReceived: 1 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.xoffPauseFramesReceived: 1 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.ControlFramesReceived: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.xoffStateEntered: 1 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.FramesTooLong: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.Jabbers: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.UndersizePkts: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.inRangeLengthError: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.rx.outRangeLengthError: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.ifHCOutOctets: 212962495 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.Collisions: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.XonSent: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.XoffSent: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.flowControlDone: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.InternalMacTransmitErrors: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.SingleCollisionFrames: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.MultipleCollisionFrames: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.DeferredTransmissions: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.ExcessiveCollisions: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.LateCollisions: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.UnicastPkts: 701087 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.MulticastPkts: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.BroadcastPkts: 5422 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.CarrierSenseErrors: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.Discards: 0 dev.bge.0.stats.tx.Errors: 0 dev.bge.0.wake: 0 -- Kees Jan http://java-monitor.com/ kjkos...@kjkoster.org +31651838192 The secret of success lies in the stability of the goal. -- Benjamin Disraeli _______________________________________________ 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"