From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 1 20:42:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from joliet.groenquist.com (cx707588-b.santab1.ca.home.com [65.5.150.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE9537B423 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 20:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@groenquist.com) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by joliet.groenquist.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f423fmW01176; Tue, 1 May 2001 20:41:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@groenquist.com) Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 20:41:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Groener Reply-To: Matt Groener To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp driver in -stable ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am currently running -STABLE with fxp card with no problems. I am in the middle of a multiple hundreds of GB transfer (280GB) with no problems so far. My only change was to force the "media" and "mediaopt" functionality in ifconfig so that my Cisco switch would stop erroring out (maybe your problem?) My configs: (none of the unimportant data is real, sorry) # uname -a FreeBSD my.server.com 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Mon Apr 30 12:37:46 PDT 2001 root@my.server.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNCONF i386 # dmesg | grep fxp (this is a dual port card) fxp0: port 0x9000-0x901f mem 0xf5800000-0xf58fffff,0xfc000000-0xfc000fff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci2 fxp1: port 0x9020-0x903f mem 0xf5900000-0xf59fffff,0xfc001000-0xfc001fff irq 9 at device 5.0 on pci2 # ifconfig (only the fxp* ports) fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.9.81 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 192.168.15.255 ether FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (* deleted for paranoia *) media: 100baseTX status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP fxp1: flags=8802 mtu 1500 ether FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (* deleted for paranoia *) media: autoselect status: no carrier supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP # /etc/rc.conf config line (wrapped) ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.9.81 netmask 255.255.248.0 media 100baseTX \ mediaopt full-duplex" -matt On Wed, 2 May 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Morning all... > > Earlier today, I posted asking about potential causes for a hang > of a machine running -stable ...techies got a chance to get down to the > office this evening, and it turns out that the fxp driver was "wedged", > with a simple 'ifconfig down/up' rectifyin gthe situation ... > > Does anyone know of there were/are any problems with the driver > from an April 14th (4.3-RC) kernel/world? I'm cvsup'ng latest -STABLE > kernel and world, and will be upgrading, but just wondering if anyone > knows of any problems ... > > Basically, when they did a 'ping' from the machine, the error was > something like 'No Buffer Space' (exact error we aren't sure of, as > nothing in messages, and it scrolled off before we thought to write it > down ;( ) ... > > Maybe a parameter I have to increase? Or a DOS attack that > flooded the NIC? > > Thanks ... > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message