Re: Dell 1950 & 2950 with Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T

On Saturday 11 November 2006 22:16, Mr. Man wrote:
> Hmmm...forgive me if i'm totally-off, but why would it have
> anything to do with DNS?
>
> The requests do come out to about 4 per second, (I see them in the
> logs, no errors).  And if its trying to perform a reverse dns, im
> assuming it would only need to do a lookup once (but not even take
> this long), then cache the result so the remaining requests would
> be fast afterwards, but I just tried it with hostnamelookups Off in
> Apache and it didn't make a difference.
>
> I'm not sure if I made it clear, but I am running the Benchmark
> from the -same machine- that Apache & MySQL are running on to
> rule-out problems.
>
> I am seeing the few requests that actually do come through in
> httpd-access.log for Apache, they seem fine and, no errors are
> present in the error log.  I did check the netstat -an right after
> I sent the requests and always see a lot of TIME_WAIT's...  Im
> pretty beginner/intermediate right now at FreeBSD right now, so im
> not too sure of any other debug info I could provide.
>

The bce driver in 6.1-R or earlier is really really buggy in PE 
1950/2950 machines.  Buggy enough that it's actually unusable.  There 
is a driver that works better in -STABLE although they still haven't 
ironed all of the issues out of it.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel