Re: 9.0 w/ACPI enabled, excluding NICs

2012-07-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
arm as everything (presumably) is running at full throttle. >>> Is there any way to disable the ACPI partially, i.e. allow spin-down >>> for disks etc, but keep the NICs running? >> >> >> This is IMHO not about FreeBSD support of ACPI but possible BIOS settings

Re: 9.0 w/ACPI enabled, excluding NICs

2012-07-13 Thread Ronny Mandal
s. Furthermore, when ACPI is disabled, no network problem arises. This suggests, at least to me, that ACPI is somehow involved. gets very warm as everything (presumably) is running at full throttle. Is there any way to disable the ACPI partially, i.e. allow spin-down for disks etc, but keep t

Re: 9.0 w/ACPI enabled, excluding NICs

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
m as everything (presumably) is running at full throttle. Is there any way to disable the ACPI partially, i.e. allow spin-down for disks etc, but keep the NICs running? This is IMHO not about FreeBSD support of ACPI but possible BIOS settings that turn on some kind of hibernation. Hope that th

9.0 w/ACPI enabled, excluding NICs

2012-07-13 Thread Ronny Mandal
etc, but keep the NICs running? Hope that this question was understandable. Thanks. Regards, Ronny Mandal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: 9.0, Samba and two NICs

2012-02-27 Thread Ronny Mandal
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Da Rock wrote: > On 02/24/12 21:39, Ronny Mandal wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I have been running Samba on FreeBSD 9.0 with a wireless card. A share >> is connected to my W7 computer. To get more speed between the >> computers, I decided to activate the 1GBit- Ethernet o

Re: 9.0, Samba and two NICs

2012-02-24 Thread Da Rock
On 02/24/12 21:39, Ronny Mandal wrote: Hi! I have been running Samba on FreeBSD 9.0 with a wireless card. A share is connected to my W7 computer. To get more speed between the computers, I decided to activate the 1GBit- Ethernet on the FreeBSD and establish a direct connection (cross-link) to th

9.0, Samba and two NICs

2012-02-24 Thread Ronny Mandal
Hi! I have been running Samba on FreeBSD 9.0 with a wireless card. A share is connected to my W7 computer. To get more speed between the computers, I decided to activate the 1GBit- Ethernet on the FreeBSD and establish a direct connection (cross-link) to the W7. I gave the new connection a static

Re: Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-04 Thread H.Fazaeli
based on 10+ exprience and working with a dozen models, I recommend intel cards: - Intel explicitly supports freebsd. - the cards are highly stable - have best performance among all other cards on freebsd and if you look for best performance, buy a card based on 82575 or 82576 controllers. On

Re: Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
ntel cards. Intel is a safe choice of NIC -- basically you can be sure that it will not only be supported, but it will work very well. Of the other branded NICs there, unfortunately it is impossible to say much about them based on the manufacturers name. The important thing is the chipset. If

Re: Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-03 Thread Nathan Vidican
I have several Intel multi-port, (2 port, 4 port and even some 2 port fibre-optic), cards in use. All have been rock-solid, stable performers, and have hardware VLAN tagging and trunking capability. I have some 4 port cards in use with LACP+VLAN Trunking, and then use vlan interfaces in FreeBSD con

Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-03 Thread Robert Huff
Ryan Coleman writes: > Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new > system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet. > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010064+600013872+600016290&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Con

Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
Any thoughts? I need/want to get a multi-port NIC for my new system but I haven't purchased the guts for the server yet. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010064+600013872+600016290&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=27&d

bonding NICs with netgraph

2010-02-25 Thread Urbanski, William
Hi, I am setting up a freebsd box to act as a snort sensor on a network. The box has three nics, one internal nic for talking on the network and to the management server, and two nics on a single pci card that each connect to SPAN ports on my switch. I am trying to bind the two adapters on the

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-22 Thread Elliot Finley
s that mean that all NICs are pretty much > commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, > etc), or does it just mean that machine performance has grown to > the point where we don't care anymore? The hardware.html page > tells me what may owrk, but not what

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Huff
C. C. Tang writes: > >Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a dual-port Pro/1000, and > > the thing is a rock: > > I am planning to get a Pro/1000 MT dual port card, do you know > that will it works well in 32bit PCI slot on FreeBSD? I have one of these: Pro/1000 GT Dual

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread C. C. Tang
Let me add my vote for Intel: I have a dual-port Pro/1000, and the thing is a rock: I am planning to get a Pro/1000 MT dual port card, do you know that will it works well in 32bit PCI slot on FreeBSD? Thanks, C.C. ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Nathan Vidican
Personally, I've had the best success with fxp and em cards (Intel), and the worst with broadcom-based on-board nics, but have tried and worked with many different cards over the years on FreeBSD. Hands-down though, I prefer Intel's NIC offerings. IIRC - Intel contributed to the devel

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:20:34PM -0600, John wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12:29AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the > > older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as well. > >

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
on in firmware (which generally wasn't around until gigabit). > Just curious, though - you don't mention 3Com cards one way or the other, > yet there's a lot of them out there. Any comment on those? The older 3com NICs used by ed/vx (including 3c5xx & NE2000 clones) tended

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Huff
Chuck Swiger writes: > > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become > > rather dormant. > > Intel (fxp, em) and Broadcom (bce, bge) make fine NICs, and the > older DEC/Intel 21x4x Tulip series (dc/de) was quite good as > well. Let

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12:29AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John wrote: > > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become > > rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much > > commodity

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John wrote: > This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become > rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much > commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, > etc), or does it just mean

Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread John
This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, etc), or does it just mean that machine performance has grown to the point where we don't care an

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
ve sense only if station is associated. Reported driver signal is to low to be usefull. > 1) The XP box works fine with the Linksys NIC in it. > 2) Both the XP and FBSD boxes are Dell Optiplex GX270, so they have > identical hardware aside from the wireless NICs. > 3) The md5 checksu

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Hall
t at least part of the scan function doesn't work and I know that it's not detecting changes in rate and signal that are being reported by the XP box. 1) The XP box works fine with the Linksys NIC in it. 2) Both the XP and FBSD boxes are Dell Optiplex GX270, so they have identical hardware a

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-02 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/2/09, Robert Hall wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: >> On 7/2/09, Robert Hall wrote: And what about TX/RX signal? >>> >>> I don't know where to look for that. :) >> >> It is part of scan output. > > I don't remember seeing that in the output. I'll put the Lin

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Hall
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 7/2/09, Robert Hall wrote: >>> And what about TX/RX signal? >> >> I don't know where to look for that. :) > > It is part of scan output. I don't remember seeing that in the output. I'll put the Linksys back in the FBSD box and look for it.

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-02 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/2/09, Robert Hall wrote: >> And what about TX/RX signal? > > I don't know where to look for that. :) It is part of scan output. >> Could you put backtrace somewhere? >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html > > Backtrace from crashing with a Belkin ndi

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-01 Thread Robert Hall
> And what about TX/RX signal? I don't know where to look for that. :) > Could you put backtrace somewhere? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html Backtrace from crashing with a Belkin ndis: (kgdb) backtrace #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:196 #1 0xc055bcc3 in b

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-01 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/1/09, Robert Hall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: >> On 7/1/09, Robert Hall wrote: >>> I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. >>> It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and >>> other values, but it won't a

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-01 Thread Robert Hall
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 7/1/09, Robert Hall wrote: >> I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. >> It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and >> other values, but it won't associate with the access point or >>

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-01 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/1/09, Robert Hall wrote: > I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. > It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and > other values, but it won't associate with the access point or > establish a useful connection. Does it get any scan result

Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-01 Thread Robert Hall
I've been trying to get a Linksys WMP54G v. 4.1 to work on FBSD 7.2. It sort of works with the ral driver; I can set the ssid and inet and other values, but it won't associate with the access point or establish a useful connection. I've tried compiling ndis drivers for both the Linksys and a Belki

Re: Multiple NICs routing question

2008-10-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
>I've a server box with four NICs addressing different subnets: > >NIC1: one class c subnet of same class b network >NIC2: another class c subnet of same class b network >NIC3: local unrouted network >NIC4: local unrouted network > >In the current configuration

Re: Multiple NICs routing question

2008-10-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:26 AM 10/9/2008, Konrad Heuer wrote: Hello, I've a server box with four NICs addressing different subnets: NIC1: one class c subnet of same class b network NIC2: another class c subnet of same class b network NIC3: local unrouted network NIC4: local unrouted network I

Multiple NICs routing question

2008-10-09 Thread Konrad Heuer
Hello, I've a server box with four NICs addressing different subnets: NIC1: one class c subnet of same class b network NIC2: another class c subnet of same class b network NIC3: local unrouted network NIC4: local unrouted network In the current configuration I use a default ga

RE: two nics each with dsl and the third for LAN and am not able to get any milage out of one dsl.

2008-09-21 Thread Marcel Grandemange
> >> I just inherited a second dsl line and don't have a >> server to connect >> it too so I have it connected to a third nic that I have in >> the Dell >> that has the first dsl connection and the LAN. I have been >> running pf >> on the two ni

Re: two nics each with dsl and the third for LAN and am not able to get any milage out of one dsl.

2008-09-21 Thread eculp
Quoting Nash Nipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I just inherited a second dsl line and don't have a server to connect it too so I have it connected to a third nic that I have in the Dell that has the first dsl connection and the LAN. I have been running pf on the two nics with nat a

Re: two nics each with dsl and the third for LAN and am not able to get any milage out of one dsl.

2008-09-19 Thread Nash Nipples
> I just inherited a second dsl line and don't have a > server to connect > it too so I have it connected to a third nic that I have in > the Dell > that has the first dsl connection and the LAN. I have been > running pf > on the two nics with nat and squid i

two nics each with dsl and the third for LAN and am not able to get any milage out of one dsl.

2008-09-19 Thread eculp
I just inherited a second dsl line and don't have a server to connect it too so I have it connected to a third nic that I have in the Dell that has the first dsl connection and the LAN. I have been running pf on the two nics with nat and squid in transparent proxy mode without any i

USB nics

2008-04-20 Thread Da Rock
Hi guys. I have a little usb nic, and I would like to be able to attach it for service purposes from time to time. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any clear instructions on how to do this, and my time is short. The nic is an AXIS 88772 which I think might be covered by drivers. Cheers __

if_bridge, if_tap and wireless NICs

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've finally gotten emulators/qemu to work with bridge/tap networking on FreeBSD-7.0-BETA1 i386 using bfe0: For reference, I used the tutorial listed at: http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1563 My issue is, however, that QEMU/bridge/tap does not work with my wireless NIC (

Re: Multiple NICs - custom protocol development

2007-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Len Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, thanks for the response; It's nice to see some community support. > > Here is what I am trying to do: > > I am building a custom MAC protocol for a wireless system that has different > software on > the "head end" and the "clients." It is not peer-

Re: Multiple NICs - custom protocol development

2007-09-20 Thread Len Gross
; getting > > to the Internet via a default route.via a wireless connection. > > I want to develop some custom link protocols and I have placed two > Ethernet > > NICs in the box. > > I want to be able to send packets from one NIC to the other and maintain > the > >

Re: Multiple NICs - custom protocol development

2007-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Len Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a host on my local 192.168.0 / 24 subnet that works fine in getting > to the Internet via a default route.via a wireless connection. > I want to develop some custom link protocols and I have placed two Ethernet > NIC

Multiple NICs - custom protocol development

2007-09-16 Thread Len Gross
I have a host on my local 192.168.0 / 24 subnet that works fine in getting to the Internet via a default route.via a wireless connection. I want to develop some custom link protocols and I have placed two Ethernet NICs in the box. I want to be able to send packets from one NIC to the other and

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Friday 31 August 2007 20:55:13 Tobias Ernst wrote: > Hi, > > I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a > driver/hardware issue. > > As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: > > bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard > bge

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-09-01 Thread Tobias Ernst
Nikos Vassiliadis schrieb: >> I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows >> machine that is connected to the same switch as my two FreeBSD machines >> and does not even talk to them explicitly influence the autonegotation >> of the FreeBSD NIC? > I didn't say that a Windo

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:48:35 +0200, Tobias Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows > machine that is connected to the same switch as my two FreeBSD machines > and does not even talk to them explicitly influence the autonegotation > of t

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
Nikos Vassiliadis schrieb: > On Friday 31 August 2007 22:30, I correctly wrote: >> Did you try without forcing a link speed(check ifconfig -m) > s/without // > > anything useful in dmesg? No, nothing at all in dmesg. I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows machine that

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 31 August 2007 22:30, I correctly wrote: > Did you try without forcing a link speed(check ifconfig -m) s/without // anything useful in dmesg? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 31 August 2007 21:55, Tobias Ernst wrote: > Hi, > > I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a > driver/hardware issue. > > As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: > > bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard > bge

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
Hi, I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a driver/hardware issue. As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard bge2, bge3: BCM5704, PCIX card bge4, bge5: BCM5704, PCIX card I have now greatly simplified the

strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
resses configured on the bge1 NICs. I cannot ping the other machine when using the IP addresses configured on the bge5 NICs as ARP entries remain incomplete. I can then configure bge5 to promiscous mode on one machine, and after about 10 seconds the ping starts working. Here's what ipconfig

[multiple NIC issue] two NICs in the same subnet problem.

2007-08-24 Thread myronn
Hi, I found an issue for a long time. For test requirement without any switch/hub: One host has two NICs and with the same subnet setting. (local)NIC1: 10.0.0.1/8 (local)NIC2: 10.0.0.2/8 (direct connect peer) 10.0.0.10/8 (direct connect peer) 10.0.0.20/8 ping

Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread Tom Judge
John Nielsen wrote: Quoting Ivan Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.1.4 netma

Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Ivan Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0" Th

Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread magikman
ne 05, 2007 6:55 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to correctly use 2 on board nics Hello I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" ifconfig_em0="ine

RE: How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread Bob
6:55 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to correctly use 2 on board nics Hello I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" ifconfig_em0="ine

Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread Tom Judge
Ivan Carey wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Ivan Carey wrote: Hello I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.1.4 netma

Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread Ivan Carey
Tom Judge wrote: Ivan Carey wrote: Hello I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0"

Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread Tom Judge
Ivan Carey wrote: Hello I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0" The question, is t

How to correctly use 2 on board nics

2007-06-05 Thread Ivan Carey
Hello I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's I have set them up in rc.conf as follows defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0" The question, is this the correct con

Netgear WG111 / WG111T USB NICs

2007-05-17 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Running 6.2-STABLE on i386... Anyone know if there is support for USB Wireless NICs? I have a Netgear WG111 that is recognized as /dev/ugen0, but that's it. Netgear also makes their "T" model (WG111T) that has their "Super G" technolgy that often uses Atheros

Re: recommendations for wireless nics

2007-02-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:53:28PM +0100, Paul Eskello wrote: > Hi all, > > looking for any recommendations regarding wireless lan pci cards and > freebsd, please. It is impossible to give a general recommendation like "buy brand X, model Y". Manufacturers sometimes switch chipsets on their cards

Re: recommendations for wireless nics

2007-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
Don't get the motorolas; you can check, but classically, they all have non-open-source (and therefore unsupported) broadcom chipsets. My usual method is to type in the model number of the card and "chipset" into a google search, which ususally works. I'd say the atheros cards are most widely use

recommendations for wireless nics

2007-02-03 Thread Paul Eskello
Hi all, looking for any recommendations regarding wireless lan pci cards and freebsd, please. Thx in advance. Cheers, Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
loppy, you couldn't install freebsd on it. Ted - Original Message - From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Broadcom N

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-18 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
stem Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:27 AM Subject: Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992) > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Is the bge dr

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
ROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:27 AM Subject: Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992) > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Is the bge driver enabled by default? > > -Dan > > > I don't know what broadcom chip your MB has b

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
IL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992) On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Use the latest Broadcom driver from FreeBSD CVS. The

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
ED]> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992) > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Use the latest Broadcom driver from FreeBSD CVS. The one included in 6.1 > > release is buggy. > > Which driver is

Re: question about Intel NICs

2007-01-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
nfer any extra benefit to you if you just have a normal 32-bit PCI slot.) Both the MT and GT NICs should work fine for you but the GT model is probably both easier and cheaper to find in stores today. FWIW I have a PRO/1000 GT card in one of my machines and it

question about Intel NICs

2007-01-13 Thread Robert Huff
I have a machine that's getting re-purposed, and - based on comments made here - I'd like to replace the RealTek-based NIC with Intel. However ... I've never dealt with Intel cards before, and I'm not certain which model is the right choice. A search of the Intel web site suggest

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 13, 2007 8:34:50 AM -0500 "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Use the latest Broadcom driver from FreeBSD CVS. The one included in 6.1 release is buggy. Which driver is that? My 6.1 install won't see them at all:

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-13 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
river attached) Also, I'm running 6.1-RELEASE, will the cvs drivers from CURRENT work? -Dan Ted - Original Message - From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:02 PM Subject: Broadcom Nics in Ty

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Use the latest Broadcom driver from FreeBSD CVS. The one included in 6.1 release is buggy. Ted - Original Message - From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:02 PM Subject: Broadcom Nics in Tyan

Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-12 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I have a Transport GT24 (B3992 Motherboard), and while it has one intel nic which works well, I'd like to be able to use the onboard broadcom network cards. Is there a known way of making them work? I seem to recall some dealy where you could use a windows driver? -Dan -- "I love

Broadcomm NetXtreme BCM5708 NICs and 6.1 RELEASE

2006-09-16 Thread pauls
I'm posting this for documentary purposes in case someone has this problem and wants to find the answer. Under the 6.1 RELEASE, with all sources cvsup'd to current, both world and kernel rebuilt, the Broadcommm NetExtreme 5708 NICs will fall over under very light load when usin

Re: Binding NICs

2006-08-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 16), Derrick T. Woolworth said: > Is there currently any way to bind three network interfaces to a > single IP address? With our NetApp (yeah, I realize its a whole > different animal, but still), we can use the vif interface or virtual > interface to increase bandwidth to

Binding NICs

2006-08-16 Thread Derrick T. Woolworth
Is there currently any way to bind three network interfaces to a single IP address? With our NetApp (yeah, I realize its a whole different animal, but still), we can use the vif interface or virtual interface to increase bandwidth to the device. I've looked at carp and bridging and I don't think

Re: Help! FreeBSD Webserver with two NICs

2006-05-10 Thread Robin Vley
WITH fixed IP. But basicly you can only pull/push 1mbit, since there is a 300GB traffic limit imposed. :) So, I came to an idea that if I use two NICs, one NIC bounded to 100/10 Mbps to serve the pages and one which would be bound with 24/1 Mbps connection with Fixed-IP to litsen the req

RE: Help! FreeBSD Webserver with two NICs

2006-05-10 Thread Zimmerman, Eric
Fixed-IP, I am getting a 24/1 Mbps internet line through > Telephone line. But I am just in doubt that my webserver might not be able > to server the documents with good serving speed due to 1 Mbps upstream... > > So, I came to an idea that if I use two NICs, one NIC bounded to 100/10 >

Help! FreeBSD Webserver with two NICs

2006-05-10 Thread Maan Jee
internet line through Telephone line. But I am just in doubt that my webserver might not be able to server the documents with good serving speed due to 1 Mbps upstream... So, I came to an idea that if I use two NICs, one NIC bounded to 100/10 Mbps to serve the pages and one which would be bound with 24

ipf and ipnat stopped working, no routing between nics.

2006-03-31 Thread Daniel A.
(My apologies if you're recieving this email for the third time. It doesnt seem as the previous ones reached the list) Hi, I run a FreeBSD 6.0 at home in my closet. Yesterday, while I was linking IRCd services with a friend of mine, my router completely stopped routing any packets between the inter

Re: ipf and ipnat stopped working, no routing between nics.

2006-03-31 Thread Daniel A.
Hi, I rebooted my machine last night, and everything started working again. But no, I didnt check that. And after I was looking at some sysctls late last night, I did speculate about whether those you mention were right or not. Problem resolved, and thanks for the help :) ps. Sorry I accidentall

Re: ipf and ipnat stopped working, no routing between nics.

2006-03-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Daniel A. wrote: Hi, I run a FreeBSD 6.0 at home in my closet. Yesterday, while I was linking IRCd services with a friend of mine, my router completely stopped routing any packets between the internal nic (sis0) and the external nic (rl0). The only thing that I can think of, whoich could have cau

ipf and ipnat stopped working, no routing between nics.

2006-03-30 Thread Daniel A.
Hi, I run a FreeBSD 6.0 at home in my closet. Yesterday, while I was linking IRCd services with a friend of mine, my router completely stopped routing any packets between the internal nic (sis0) and the external nic (rl0). The only thing that I can think of, whoich could have caused this, is that I

Re: dual bge nics slow transfer - no transfer

2006-03-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:55:29 -0800 (PST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I have a tyan k8wd with dual bge nics but they are painfully slow on transfer >rates. > Is there something I need to put in the hints file to fix this?? > Thanks! Hi, There are a lot

RE: dual bge nics slow transfer - no transfer

2006-03-20 Thread fbsd_user
Busby Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:55 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dual bge nics slow transfer - no transfer I have a tyan k8wd with dual bge nics but they are painfully slow on transfer rates. Is there something I need to put in the hints file to fix this?? Thanks! dm

dual bge nics slow transfer - no transfer

2006-03-20 Thread Mark Busby
I have a tyan k8wd with dual bge nics but they are painfully slow on transfer rates. Is there something I need to put in the hints file to fix this?? Thanks! dmesg output Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993

Re: How to properly set-up multiple NICs?

2005-10-12 Thread Andrew P.
hing like: > > ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.17.1 netmask 0xff00" > > ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 172.17.0.1 netmask 0x" > > ifconfig_vge0="dhcp" > > ...to give you the general idea. It's enough to bring > > the NICs up and running, but t

Re: How to properly set-up multiple NICs?

2005-10-12 Thread Olaf Greve
172.17.0.1 netmask 0x" ifconfig_vge0="dhcp" ...to give you the general idea. It's enough to bring the NICs up and running, but then consider DNS and other issues that provide for a networking environment. Yes, the main entry, i.e., the one for the outside world is set-up lik

Re: How to properly set-up multiple NICs?

2005-10-12 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/12/05, Olaf Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a short and surely straightforward question: I want to set-up two > NICs on two of my FBSD 5.x servers. Each server will have a dedicated > NIC for all "outside world" traffic, and between the tw

How to properly set-up multiple NICs?

2005-10-12 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, I have a short and surely straightforward question: I want to set-up two NICs on two of my FBSD 5.x servers. Each server will have a dedicated NIC for all "outside world" traffic, and between the two machines I want to set-up a 192.168.1.x local network via a cross-wire cable,

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Emanuel Strobl wrote: Thank you for the offer, but I thought people had some simple test results in mind. If you next time use rdump or large NFS transfers to another GbE connected (and fast enough) box just watch the system load (I use systat -vm 1) and see what card causes what interrupt lo

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 10:51 CEST schrieb Dmitry Mityugov: > On 8/31/05, Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other > > GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). > > AFA

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/31/05, Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other > GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). > AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't saturate a [EMAIL > PROTECTED]

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-31 00:46, Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit > NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which > doesn't saturate a [EMAIL PROTECT

GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't saturate a [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 200mbit/s with interrupt load (like em does)? I heard that the re is way better than

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