Device Pooling and Interrupts for Intel Pro NIC

sullrich

Yes, please update to 1.2-RC1.

http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=UsingThePHPpfSenseShell

Perry

So how did this story end?

billm

Haven't heard anything else. But for what it's worth, I'm not seeing this in FreeBSD 6.2 w/ a couple of the pfSense patches added to our kernel.


# netstat -w 10
            input        (Total)           output
   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
    868544     0  286227325     865170     0  251535256     0 
    770774     0  222347441     796016     0  225886191     0 
    731287     0  224789308     766395     0  231316740     0 
    767101     0  234638730     798607     0  244245061     0 
    828549     0  245917253     847273     0  242236942     0 
    782814     0  235875581     809549     0  238561715     0 
    743229     0  222066030     776047     0  239061961     0

And the pci-id's of the cards

dual port fiber card
dev.em.0.%desc: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9
dev.em.0.%driver: em
dev.em.0.%location: slot=1 function=0
dev.em.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x8086 device=0x1012 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x1012 class=0x020000

dual port copper card
dev.em.2.%desc: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9
dev.em.2.%driver: em
dev.em.2.%location: slot=1 function=0
dev.em.2.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x8086 device=0x1079 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x1179 class=0x020000

–Bill