Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:40:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Valencia <fetrovsky@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple interfaces Message-ID: <20050818194031.59265.qmail@web53908.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050818191639.GB28174@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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Hi
from the boot messages, i can see that the network
devices are started up properly. Strangely enough,
the one that doesnt seem to be assigned an IRQ# is not
having any problems, but one of the ones that is.
Here are the boot messages
de0: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> port 0x4000-0x407f
mem 0xf4a01000-0xf4a0107f at device 11.0 on pci2
de0: SMC 9332BDT 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
de0: Ethernet address: 00:00:c0:7f:a1:fd
de0: if_start running deferred for Giant
xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port
0x4080-0x40ff mem 0xf4a01400-0xf4a0147f irq 10 at
device 13.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus0
xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX,
100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:c1:ba:82
xl1: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port
0x4400-0x447f mem 0xf4a01800-0xf4a0187f irq 11 at
device 15.0 on pci2
miibus1: <MII bus> on xl1
xlphy1: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus1
xlphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX,
100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl1: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:44:3c:22
Here goes my ifconfig
> ifconfig
de0:
flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
inet 128.200.38.140 netmask 0xffffff00
broadcast 128.200.38.255
inet6 fe80::200:c0ff:fe7f:a1fd%de0 prefixlen
64 scopeid 0x1
ether 00:00:c0:7f:a1:fd
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
<full-duplex>)
status: active
xl0:
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
inet 10.0.1.1 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast
10.0.255.255
inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fec1:ba82%xl0 prefixlen 64
scopeid 0x2
ether 00:01:02:c1:ba:82
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
<full-duplex>)
status: active
xl1:
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
inet 10.0.1.2 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast
10.0.255.255
inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fe44:3c22%xl1 prefixlen 64
scopeid 0x3
ether 00:01:02:44:3c:22
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
<full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>
And, at last, a few ping attempts
> ping -c 1 128.200.38.140
PING 128.200.38.140 (128.200.38.140): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 128.200.38.140: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64
time=0.130 ms
--- 128.200.38.140 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet
loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev =
0.130/0.130/0.130/0.000 ms
> ping -c 1 10.0.1.1
PING 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.128
ms
--- 10.0.1.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet
loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev =
0.128/0.128/0.128/0.000 ms
> ping -c 1 10.0.1.2
PING 10.0.1.2 (10.0.1.2): 56 data bytes
--- 10.0.1.2 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet
loss
>
Thank you very much,
Daniel
--- Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:36:55AM -0700, Daniel
> Valencia wrote:
> > Hello, everybody
> >
> > Is there any limit as of how many interfaces can
> > freebsd handle? Im trying to build a switch in a
> PC
> > box, putting multiple NICs and some software...
> The
> > issue is, even though all of the cards work
> correctly
> > by themselves, once I put them together, it doesnt
> > matter what slots i use, I can never make more
> than
> > two of them work. For even though all the rest
> appear
> > up as well, I cant ping neither them nor their
> peers
> > (Im using crossover cables).
>
> The software limit is 2^16-1. It sounds like you
> are having hardware
> issues. I'd tend to guess interrupt routing issues.
> I'd suggest
> posting details to freebsd-questions or possibly
> freebsd-stable.
>
> -- Brooks
>
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