Tony Sarendal wrote:
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> On 10/3/07, *Daniel Ouellet* <daniel@presscom.net 
> <mailto:daniel@presscom.net>> wrote:
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>     Claudio Jeker wrote:
>      > Could you add the dmesg of the test box to the website?
>      > Do you have any other network cards you could test? (I'm mostly
>     interested
>      > in bnx but sk, msk, bge and nfe could be interesting as well).
> 
>     This box if the M2 version also come with nfe cards as well, but there
>     is issue with it at the moment. dmesg available:
> 
>     http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yes&numbers=5587
>     <http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yes&numbers=5587>
> 
> 
> Dmesg's are on the site now.
> http://www.layer17.net/openbsd-test-setup.html 
> <http://www.layer17.net/openbsd-test-setup.html>
> 
> Note that the box actually has 8Gigs of memory.
> 
> Since I'm off-site I had to get someone else to powercycle the box for me
> to wake up the nfe I use as management interface, so the MP dmesg is
> from the logs.
> 
> Running with the SP kernel the nfe's seem to work ok.

You can't manually fix the option on that card and if you do:

ifconfig -m nfe0

You will see the option for:
	media 1000baseSX
	media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex

Witch are obviously wrong.

Also, some issue with the AMD64 mp kernel, make the box crash when you 
push a lots of traffic to it.

Lots of comment in archive and tests as well. The i386 looks ok so far, 
except the nfe still bad no matter what, however the AMD64 is not really 
stable and if you put the ACPI on, well...

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> I'm running the same set of tests with the SP kernel right now.
> The 64 byte frames issue in the throughput/latency test looks to be 
> gone... cross fingers...

I have 4 of these and still sadly haven't put any in production yet 
because of various stability issue with them.

So, I wouldn't put it as a router right now, but YMMV I guess.

Test well before you do.

Daniel