Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757614AbYHUQVr (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:21:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752213AbYHUQVg (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:21:36 -0400 Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:3885 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750921AbYHUQVf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:21:35 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: B55A25B1-5D7D-41F8-BC53-C57E7AD3C201 From: "Michael Chan" To: "'Marc Haber'" cc: "Matthew Carlson" , "David Miller" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:21:28 -0700 Subject: Re: 2.6.26/tg3 ping roundtrip times > 2000 ms on local network Thread-Topic: 2.6.26/tg3 ping roundtrip times > 2000 ms on local network Thread-Index: AckDqFFZZ8icQTMtSCiKq+LzK5RCEAAATqkQ Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080821160928.GB21967@torres.zugschlus.de> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Aug 2008 16:21:29.0155 (UTC) FILETIME=[F7627130:01C903A9] X-WSS-ID: 64B349834YK9620480-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 893 Lines: 26 Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:11:50AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 10:47 -0700, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Now I need to understand why the other, nearly[1] > identical box didn't > > > need the patch to function properly. > > > > It depends on whether you have ASF enabled or not and what > version of > > ASF you have. ASF is management firmware running inside > the NIC. When > > the tg3 driver loads, it will show ASF[1] in dmesg if ASF > is enabled. > > Both machines have that string in their dmesg. > It may be different versions of ASF. Try ethtool -i eth0. It may tell us the firmware version. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/