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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:13:52 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        marius.h@lden.org
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, np@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cxl nic not working after reboot
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:17 PM Marius Halden <marius.h@lden.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, at 01:50, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:14 PM Marius Halden <marius.h@lden.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018, at 21:34, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
> > > > On 8/28/18 12:30 PM, Marius Halden wrote:
> > > > > tx_frames does move, rx_frames is stuck at zero. The following
> > > counters are non-zero and does increase when traffic is sent through
> the
> > > interface, all other are stuck at zero:
> > > > >
> > > > > dev.cxl.0.stats.tx_frames_65_127: 26083
> > > > > dev.cxl.0.stats.tx_frames_64: 4084
> > > > > dev.cxl.0.stats.tx_mcast_frames: 26083
> > > > > dev.cxl.0.stats.tx_bcast_frames: 4084
> > > > > dev.cxl.0.stats.tx_frames: 30167
> > > > > dev.cxl.0.stats.tx_octets: 2608846
> > > > >
> > > > > Anything else I should look at?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > What is on the other side of the link?  Look at the peer's rx stats
> and
> > > > see if it received the frames that cxl0 claims it has transmitted or
> not.
> > >
> > > Our ISPs router is connected to the other side. Unfortunately I don't
> have
> > > access to any of the counters, but from what I understood when
> originally
> > > debugging this with our ISP they did not see any traffic. If needed I
> can
> > > ask them to check the rx counters tomorrow.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Marius Halden
> > >
> >
> > This looks a lot like either a routing  or NDP issue with the adjacent
> > router. Well, an NDP issue devolves to a routing issue. It also possible
> > that RDP is an issue, but, if you can't ping the opposite end, that
> > eliminates RDP. You might check for NDP traffic with tcpdump or wireshark
> > when the connection is restored. If you are not IPv6 conversant, NDP is
> the
> > IPv6 replacement for ARP and it's pretty obvious how this would impact
> your
> > connectivity.
>
> I do see ARP requests and neighbor solicitations with tcpdump, but not any
> replies for either. Though I'm pretty sure that's just a symptom of the
> problem and not the root cause considering both ipv4 and ipv6 will start
> working again if the SFP is removed and reinserted.
>
> What is RDP in this context?
>
> --
> Marius Halden
>

Router Discovery Protocol. Since you are unable to communicate with the
adjacent system, RDP is not relevant. I do agree that this is almost
certainly a hardware/driver issue.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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