RE: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, July 12, 2007 16:11:11 -0700 David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave, perhaps you could answer my question? I'm using the 0.9.6 driver with 6.1 RELEASE. I don't use jumbo frames, so the only problem I've experienced is the link state going up and down occasionally. D

RE: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread David Christensen
> Dave, perhaps you could answer my question? > > I'm using the 0.9.6 driver with 6.1 RELEASE. I don't use > jumbo frames, so > the only problem I've experienced is the link state going up and down > occasionally. > > Does the more current driver solve the link state problem? > If it does,

RE: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, July 12, 2007 15:10:31 -0700 David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm sorry I haven't been able to get to the root of your problems Tom. My biggest challenge is trying to duplicate the a loaded system which seems to be an important component of the failure you're seeing.

RE: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread David Christensen
> Firstly I am not trying to slate David's efforts, however > there are and > have been some big problems with the driver. > > As for the IPMI integration, our management controllers are > set to used > the remote access controller NIC (Set as dedicated in the > bios) rather > than share the

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Julian Elischer
Tom Judge wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: Hi Paul, From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and there is a light-moderate netwo

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Tom Judge
Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:31:41AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: Hi Paul, From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months the driver in 6.2 is stable if you a

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Gary Palmer
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:31:41AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > >Tom Judge wrote: > >>Josh Paetzel wrote: > >>>On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: > Hi Paul, > > From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months > the driver in 6.2 is st

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Tom Judge
Doug Ambrisko wrote: Tom Judge writes: | | I am very surprised at that. The driver in 6.1 was un-usable in our | environment. 6.2 makes it usable with standard frames under moderate | load. However use jumbo frames and it all falls apart, and unfortunately | the network these systems are pl

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Tom Judge writes: | Julian Elischer wrote: | > Tom Judge wrote: | >> Josh Paetzel wrote: | >>> On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: | Hi Paul, | | From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months | the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo fra

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-12 Thread Tom Judge
Julian Elischer wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: Hi Paul, From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and there is a light-moderate network load. However

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On July 11, 2007 1:51:04 PM -0500 Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was running the driver from STABLE until about March and it would bounce the link up and down a couple times a day even under relatively moderate load. (50-60 mbps) So perhaps there have been improvements since then,

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Tom Judge wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: Hi Paul, From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and there is a light-moderate network load. However if you want to use Jumbo

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-11 Thread Tom Judge
Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: Hi Paul, From the testing that I have been doing for the last few months the driver in 6.2 is stable if you are not using jumbo frames and there is a light-moderate network load. However if you want to use Jumbo frames the driver

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > > Paul, I was never able to solve the link up/link down problems > > with the driverI was using the drivers from STABLE for a > > while, and without jumbo frames everything worked somewhat ok > > most of the timethe ultimate solution was

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the > > if_bce.c file with a slightly newer one that at least got the > > driver working without hard lockups that required a reboot to > > fix. (Rather problematic on a rem

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:30:21 -0500 Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tom Judge wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the > if_bce.c file with a slightly newer one that at least got the > driver working wit

Re: Question about bce driver

2007-07-11 Thread Tom Judge
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the if_bce.c file with a slightly newer one that at least got the driver working without hard lockups that required a reboot to fix. (Rather problematic on a remotely located web server.) If I download the latest driv

Question about bce driver

2007-07-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm running 6.1 RELEASE (i386) and I've been replacing the if_bce.c file with a slightly newer one that at least got the driver working without hard lockups that required a reboot to fix. (Rather problematic on a remotely located web server.) If I download the latest driver from cvs (1.33), s