Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:55:21PM -0600, Greg Barniskis wrote: >> On our Dell PE2950 units, we had to do the same thing (disable and >> replace the Broadcom interfaces), and that was running Windows >> Server 2k3. The problem really seems to be flakiness of the chips or

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Vinny Abello
Greg Barniskis wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: On our PE800, I had to disable the bge on BIOS and plug in an em-based NIC card. Made a world of difference in system stability and performance -- it is actually usable now :-) On our Dell PE2950 units, we had to do the same thing (disable and repla

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:55:21PM -0600, Greg Barniskis wrote: > On our Dell PE2950 units, we had to do the same thing (disable and > replace the Broadcom interfaces), and that was running Windows > Server 2k3. The problem really seems to be flakiness of the chips or > firmware, not necessarily

RE: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Dimuthu Parussalla
: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 Vivek Khera wrote: > On our PE800, I had to disable the bge on BIOS and plug in an em-based > NIC card. Made a world of difference in system stability and > performance -- it is actually usable now :-) On our De

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Greg Barniskis
Vivek Khera wrote: On our PE800, I had to disable the bge on BIOS and plug in an em-based NIC card. Made a world of difference in system stability and performance -- it is actually usable now :-) On our Dell PE2950 units, we had to do the same thing (disable and replace the Broadcom interfa

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Vivek Khera
On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: Pretty well the same thing we are seeing. Our interrupt rate is a bit higher as this is a fairly busy DNS server. I am guessing this is more an issue with the bge driver then a general network issue as other similarly loaded boxes with em nic

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:20 AM 2/28/2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:54:18PM +1100, Dimuthu Parussalla wrote: > Hi, > > Dmesg output related to bge as follows. > > miibus0: on bge0 > brgphy0: on miibus0 > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, > 1000baseTX-FDX

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:54:18PM +1100, Dimuthu Parussalla wrote: > Hi, > > Dmesg output related to bge as follows. > > miibus0: on bge0 > brgphy0: on miibus0 > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > bge0: Ethernet address: 00:11:25:e9:7

RE: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-14 Thread Dimuthu Parussalla
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2007 3:36 PM To: Dimuthu Parussalla Cc: 'Glen Van Lehn'; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:09:08PM +1100, Dimuthu Parussalla wrote: > Hi All, > > I&#

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:09:08PM +1100, Dimuthu Parussalla wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just noticed when this incident happens Ierrs starting to increase and > then interface in not pingable. Refer to output below. > > Also how do I set the interface in rc.conf to use 1000baseTX. Without using >

RE: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-14 Thread Dimuthu Parussalla
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dimuthu Parussalla Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:17 PM To: 'Glen Van Lehn'; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 Hi Glen, I did that already and it works for few days and dropping out. no

RE: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-14 Thread Dimuthu Parussalla
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 >>> "Dimuthu Parussalla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/11/07 3:54 PM >>> Hi All, I am having intermittent network issues with our IBM X236 dual xeon server. Server co

Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

2007-02-14 Thread Glen Van Lehn
>>> "Dimuthu Parussalla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/11/07 3:54 PM >>> Hi All, I am having intermittent network issues with our IBM X236 dual xeon server. Server comes with two bge network cards. At random intervals internal lan drops out. And then few minutes later it comes back online. So far I can