From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 10 10:23:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.thebiz.net (mx1.thebiz.net [216.238.0.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1128D37B9F4 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:23:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from maz@albany.net) Received: (qmail 8733 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2000 13:23:50 -0500 Received: from mail1.thebiz.net (172.16.0.179) by mx1.thebiz.net with SMTP; 10 Mar 2000 13:23:50 -0500 Received: (qmail 13158 invoked by uid 0); 10 Mar 2000 13:23:50 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO mahatma) (216.238.1.20) by mail.albany.net with SMTP; 10 Mar 2000 13:23:50 -0500 Message-ID: <00f501bf8abd$b7f48290$1401eed8@mahatma> From: "Matthew Zahorik" To: References: <200003100320.WAA89150@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <00b901bf8a40$b7165f60$c320a118@matthome> <20000309233950.A4877@stat.Duke.EDU> Subject: Re: Ethernet problem on Tsunami Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:23:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org : I'll force everything to 100fdx in the morning and report. Okay, that all worked as soon as the *switch* was forced to 100Mb/fdx. The SRM settings and kernel settings really don't matter. I have the mediatype set to autoneg and it works fine. [1] Sounds like the autonegotiation bits of the driver are broken. I don't have to force the switch for any other OS on the same hardware. (or other hardware) Also, there are absolutely, completely no link or activity lights. This is bad from an operational standpoint where NOC guys are running around and thinking their cables are defective. Should I submit this as a bug? Is there any other debugging output can I add to help figure this out? Right now, this is an acceptable workaround, but long term I'd like to see/help get this problem fixed. Thanks for all the help! - Matt [1] "Works fine" is relative. The kernel autonegs 100Mb/hdx, the switch is still forced to 100Mb/fdx. To get proper operation at higher utilization without errors you still have to force it, but you can pass low-volume traffic with ifconfig set with a media of auto. -- Matthew Zahorik Director of Systems and Networking - BiznessOnline.com matt@thebiz.net President of AlbanyNet Inc. - a BiznessOnline subsidiary maz@albany.net Voice: (518) 292-1001 Fax: (518) 626-0793 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message