On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Jack F Vogel wrote: > > Log: > > Updates for both the em and igb drivers, add support > > for multiqueue tx, shared code updates, new device > > support, and some bug fixes. > > Since this change (and the two followups), I'm no longer able to use > if_em reliable in VMWare Fusion. I get a bit of traffic, and then > interrupts cease firing from the (virtual) card. If I lower the > interface and raise it, it will recover for a short period, and then > the same result. I'm running VMWare 2.0.5, which is the latest > version available; if I locally back out the update changes, then it > works fine so it seems unlikely to be other on-going network stack > work. I realize that VMWare's driver is probably not part of your > official test suite (not actually being a product manafactured by > Intel :-), but keeping VMWare working is pretty important from a > FreeBSD perspective! Not sure it was this commit but Virtual Box also has issues with em in -current. em complains the MAC address is invalid and refuses to attach. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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