Dave Love wrote:
Gerry Creager <gerry.crea...@tamu.edu> writes:
I had rather nasty results with tg3 and abandoned it. We're using bnx2
now. The latest iteration seems (guardedly) better than the last one.
I thought that they were for different hardware (NetXtreme I
c.f. NetXtreme II, according to broadcom.com). Is that not the case?
If bnx2 behaves the same as tg3 here, set rx-frames to 1 with ethtool.
Anaconda (CentOS2 originally installed a tg3 driver. Performance sucked
(technical term) with that and we went to a bnx2 driver consistent with
our understanding of the hardware. It sucked less. Not until a recent
combined BIOS update on the Dell 1950s and a new bnx2 driver, have I
begun to see decent operation at 9000 byte frames.
gerry
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