Re: Intel GigE or other 64-bit PCI cards on O2?

[Rafal Boni <rafal%pobox.com@localhost>]

Rafal Boni wrote:
> Another "does this work for you" query -- I've had trouble with the 
> Intel 82544EI on the O2 ever since when... I tried again with a recent 
> -current, and still get the same spotty functionality -- large tcp 
> transfers hang, the nic fails to respond occasionally, etc.

[...]
> The other thing of note is what 'netstat -i' reports:
>
> Name  Mtu   Network       Address      Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs Colls
> wm0   1500  <Link>        <macaddr>    11564  9431        7     0     0
>
> That's after a *succesful* 'ping -f -c 10000' from another node... and 
> an attempted 'scp' of /netbsd (~ 7MB) from the sparc64 box.

Oops, classic "oops, forgot something moment"... this and mec0 were both 
on the same network... the sent-packet count of mec0 actually made sense 
given the traffic.  So there's just the question of the input errors.

All that said, TCP *does* seems to provoke this more than ICMP, but I'll 
actually have to test it in a more sensible configuration (ie, w/out two 
NICs on the wire/same IP network)

--rafal