[cleaned up formatting, since I accidentally top-posed to begin with] On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote: > I worte: >> I have only ever had an issue with off-brand NIC's, personally.
>> But you are of course correct - PCI devices are supposed to be able to >> share IRQ's, but that doesn't mean all manufacturers do interop >> testing to make sure that works. > This makes no sense at all. ? I have had occasional issues with PCI NIC's inexplicably refusing to send traffic if they shared an IRQ - this was not an OpenBSD issue, since in those cases the problem was not corrected by using a different OS. NIC functioned fine when IRQ was no longer shared. Now, I had always assumed it was because of a problem with the NIC itself. Apparently, I am about to find out I was wrong :-).
