On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:35:45AM -0700, Henry Sieff wrote: > [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 :-).
This can not have been recent. Sure in them olden days on garbage like netware this was an issue but those days are long gone.
