strange igb interface performance problems

2011-06-09 Thread Mario Spinthiras
Hello All, The subject topic might catch a few by surprise because for the most part it smells a lot like a problem that came to light in 2009 regarding bad performance on Intel NICs using the igb driver. I currently have a point to point link between 2 pfsense 2.0RC1 running FreeBSD 8.1 that c

Re: strange igb interface performance problems

2011-06-14 Thread Mario Spinthiras
problems to what I'm having however disabling LRO and TSO does not work for me. I'm quite frustrated with this because I'm not getting an error or not looking in the right place. Can someone out there point me in the right direction? Any help will be much appreciat

Re: strange igb interface performance problems

2011-06-15 Thread Mario Spinthiras
Hi, To disable LRO I tried ifconfig igb1 -lro and I also tried adding the sysctl params in loader.conf. Both did not result in any change. I'm going to have to find a way to use the new igb driver I guess, hoping that would fix it maybe. Regards, Mario