From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 19:40:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789EC16A41F for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:40:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fetrovsky@yahoo.com) Received: from web53908.mail.yahoo.com (web53908.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.36.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7946D43D5E for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:40:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fetrovsky@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 59269 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Aug 2005 19:40:31 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=we/m/aRb4i9s2Wwg+46BX7xe6f29EMLDgYknd9CIRoTY+fYyfGa1Ti7eboDolOBxDjP6Jz/wKR9Qys8o21F5SlZ1gUfW5tbSaXlOkUPQuT3wzOFzmH15Xuqf2rFey4KlxLXKuHdSjKONBJkycaCzmkoljLAlyhBOmhwKSHCkzpc= ; Message-ID: <20050818194031.59265.qmail@web53908.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.200.38.147] by web53908.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:40:31 PDT Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:40:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Valencia To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050818191639.GB28174@odin.ac.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: multiple interfaces X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:40:38 -0000 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: 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: 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: 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 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 ) status: active xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=9 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 ) status: active xl1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=9 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 ) status: active lo0: flags=8049 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 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 > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is > FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E > 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs