From owner-freebsd-net Thu Sep 27 9:48:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fidnet.com (one.fidnet.com [205.216.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D337D37B41B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:48:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 793 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2001 16:48:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Beast) (216.229.82.132) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2001 16:48:46 -0000 From: "Matthew Rezny" To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: "net@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:48:56 -0500 Reply-To: "Matthew Rezny" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;2) In-Reply-To: <20010927092551.A29083@panzer.kdm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Alteon gigE NIC (if_ti driver) problems Message-Id: <20010927164852.D337D37B41B@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for the suggestion, it set me in the right direction. I checked my fibre before but went ahead and checked it again. In doing so, I rearranged the cables at the switch to check if that made a difference. Sure enough, one port on the switch makes the connection drop often. I hope its just dust in the port and not something more serious. The important thing is it looks like everything is working now. On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:25:52 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 15:55:30 -0500, Matthew Rezny wrote: >> I have some more information since my initial posting yesterday. I set >> the NMBCLUSTERS back to default, which made no difference. Therefore, >> moving from 4.3 to 4.4 is what drastically increased the frequency at >> which the link goes down and back up. I also captured dmesg now I case >> there is any useful information in it. The fluctuation of the link >> occurs multiple times a second with the new kernel when attempting to >> use the network with this machine. Any suggestions would be greatly >> appreciated. Thanks. > >[ ... ] > >> ti0: mem >> 0x82850000-0x82853fff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0 >> ti0: interrupting at CIA irq 11 >> ti0: Ethernet address: 00:60:cf:20:1e:99 > >[ ... ] > >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >> ti0: link down >> ti0: gigabit link up >[ ... ] > >The most likely explanation for this is that you've got a bad/dirty >piece of fiber. The number of mbuf clusters probably isn't going to >affect this at all, unless you're dumping a lot of traffic over the >NIC and increasing the number of mbufs allows you to dump more >packets. > >So I'd say replace your fiber. > >Ken >-- >Kenneth Merry >ken@kdm.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message