From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 19:17:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AA116A420 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:17:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C9143D8F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:17:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i12so2579513wra for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:17:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fC1a4V9YVX84RrlwvcsITBiNk/gUXop7+7fbGa7LOXMj6n38YEcgUFwutbYM8Jc7f1RxF9V0I0UwQyubKc3Jf3BIZbYzbbTaJ9E9RpLTUIl6V12NMyE4cY8cYCqbjA/DOQ5kbvp7SrG1rhz4Ffsb3e5/i15bnojlDxJ3j6T5x9U= Received: by 10.64.151.12 with SMTP id y12mr1504658qbd; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:16:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.210.8 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:16:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2a41acea0601051116t6a1f277cwf378a3917fbf7ac@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:16:59 -0800 From: Jack Vogel To: Andrea Brancatelli In-Reply-To: <200601051802.k05I2wAN026595@reddevil.brancatelli.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200601051802.k05I2wAN026595@reddevil.brancatelli.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BladeCenter Saga -> bge driver not behaving properly... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:17:12 -0000 On 1/5/06, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > Sorry for breaking the thread and posting a new message instead of replyi= ng > but I'm having some problems with my mailserver. > > I did a few screenshots of the problems we are having with the Broadcom l= an > card and the bge driver... I cannot paste text because I cannot access th= e > machine in SSH (since it's not working...) > > So here they are: > > dmesg output: http://andrea.brancatelli.it/shots/cupido_dmesg.jpg > > ifconfig output: http://andrea.brancatelli.it/shots/cupido_ifconfig.jpg > > strange arp behaviours: http://andrea.brancatelli.it/shots/cupido_arp.jpg > > I hope this enlighten a bit someone. > > The hardware is working properly (I have no doubt about this) and the lan > settings are ok. > > Another strange thing is that as soon as FreeBSD starts the (usually alwa= ys > blinking due to net traffic) lan's LED goes always-on and stays steady on > forever (as if there was no traffic at all). > > We have no idea of what's happening. Seems like all the traffic is going > lost somewhere. > > FreeBSD is just installed so there is nothing like pf, software firewalli= ng, > or such. There is an internal switch to the Bladecenter chassis, its a module on the back (you dont get to just plug right into a NIC as on a normal PC :). The behavior of that switch is controlled by the management module if I am not mistaken, are you sure its configured sanely? Also, have you tried IBM support? I know they normally sell Linux for these, but maybe they'd offer some ideas?? Jack