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Networking - Tuning and Troubleshooting Network Cards - Broadcom Cards

Broadcom network cards, (bce and bge cards), especially those built into Dell hardware, may behave erratically, dropping packets, or causing system crashes especially on amd64.

In /boot/loader.conf.local – Add the following (or create the file if it does not exist):

/boot/loader.conf.local
kern.ipc.nmbclusters=”131072″
hw.bce.tso_enable=0
hw.pci.enable_msix=0

That will increase the amount of network memory buffers, disable TSO directly, and disable msix.

networking/tuning_and_troubleshooting_network_cards/broadcom_cards.txt · Last modified: 2020/11/29 11:18 by peter

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