How to create vlan (four NIC into one) using lagg

2013-07-25 Thread Xu Zhe
Hi, all, I am trying to use lagg to bind four 1Gb NIC into 4Gb one. I was testing this using two machines running FreeBSD 8.2, each of the machine has four 1Gb ethernet card, and connected correspondingly, means: MACHINE1 MACHINE2 em0 <->em0 em1 <->em1 em2

Network unstability issue with ixgbe driver (ix0 local_faults non zero)

2014-07-17 Thread Xu Zhe
Hi, Freebsd developers, We are encountering network problem on Freebsd (version 8.2), with Intel X540T 10g card and ixgbe 2.5.15 (also tried a older version 2.5.8) driver. First, we found the problem when SSH always fails due to timed out. Then we found that it is possibly a generic network issue

Question on rx queue in ixgbe driver

2014-07-23 Thread Xu Zhe
Hi, I am reading ixgbe driver of Freebsd and got some problems, which are described below. (1) Why rxd_tail does not equals to rxd_head? Here, rxd_tail/rxd_head is the value of dev.ix.0.queue0.rxd_tail/dev.ix.0.queue0.rxd_head from sysctl (take the first queue of ix0 as example). Actually, in m

Re: Question on rx queue in ixgbe driver

2014-07-24 Thread Xu Zhe
AIL. > > There is no "should be" on those indices, they are set up so things operate > correctly, and they do :) > > Hope this clarifies things somewhat? > > Jack > > > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Xu Zhe <mailto:xzpe...@gmail.com>> wrot