From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HEsmp-0001Ep-JP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:49:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l17JmQw0016079; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:48:26 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l17JkABr013138 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:46:10 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so451369wxd for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:46:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=R6TGk7Yk8jLn5fes2qQsc6/wx35RH8hGBtyZHDT8vzePOCwzf6OozuNelDC7Mrfauu4KLvKrW0A+dXxwyYTEW2zOYOUvoDF1sy4rhq56mBEzgKQZD/ALvorciIdKXONGyxxL9rY0E6l8tqtyACpXqhVMk/Xn76qxMQ/bLW1IOjw= Received: by 10.78.180.16 with SMTP id c16mr1866huf.1170877442618; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.net ( [24.31.134.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h38sm2738608wxd.2007.02.07.11.44.00; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:44:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by lappy.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) dashnu.mutt@gmail.com; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:43:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:43:54 -0500 From: Brett Curtis To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Can someone confirm? tg3 MTU issues. Message-ID: <20070207194354.GA21660@lappy.maine.rr.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org References: <20070206145300.GA4256@lappy.iwfinancial.net> <45C96DD5.8030608@gentoo.org> <20070207131119.GB1763@lappy.maine.rr.com> <45CA27BF.8020205@badapple.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45CA27BF.8020205@badapple.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: 6920dc82-fe46-47a4-ad31-457bfadd4088 X-Archives-Hash: 4373ea72a7a8eb62a74a9e0c596c13f0 Hello On 11:25 Wed 07 Feb , kashani wrote: > Brett Curtis wrote: > >Ok, this is great. In saying that do you have any idea what I should look > >at? > > > >Again same tests on any of my servers running different nics work fine > >connected to the same switch. I have the latest nic firmware from ibm... I > >guess it could be something else ibm specific? > > > >These are the two cards I am having issues with. > > > >Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 > >Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X > > > >I probably should have noted that seeing the tg3 supports a wide range of > >nics .. > >Could you test on a machine using one of these cards or did you already? > > > >thanks for the response. > > I'm seeing the same behavior on my Dell SC servers BCM5751 and BCM5721. > 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 in both cases. > I might have a newer kernel I can try > later. One thing to note is that both of these are PCI Express. > I have tried almost every kernel from 2.6.12 up to 20 still with no luck. All of my nics that are failing when lowering the mtu are also on PCI Express. > Oddly changing to MTU 1492 on the e1000 chips (82541GI) locks the > interface for about 20-30 seconds before it responds again after which > the ping -s 5000 does work. 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 on those servers and the > Intel is PCI Express as well. Works fine with my intel nic. (82546EB) again also on PCI Express. > > kashani Thanks, I wonder where I should go now.. Wonder if its a tg3 kernel bug. > > -- > gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list -- Created with VIM & mutt. I came home the other night and tried to open the door with my car keys...and the building started up. So I took it out for a drive. A cop pulled me over for speeding. He asked me where I live... "Right here". -- Steven Wright -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list