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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2001 21:49:23 -0700
From:      Kelsey Cummings <kgc@sonic.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   SMP problems with dc NIC? 4.3-S
Message-ID:  <20010801214923.D31981@sonic.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010801214631.B31981@sonic.net>; from kgc@sonic.net on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:46:31PM -0700
References:  <JDEDKHHOCINPGOEPLBJIIEHMCPAA.varian@1bigred.com> <000001c11b0c$be3b4f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010801214631.B31981@sonic.net>

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Oops - Sorry that I sent this out on the wrong thread...

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:46:31PM -0700, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
> 
> 4.3-STABLE about two weeks old.
> 
> I recently aquired a second CPU for a server and when the
> box runs a SMP kernel the ethernet exhibits packet loss from
> what appears to be transmit framing errors.  With a single
> CPU it runs just fine.
> 
> It's an older LX based Tyan Tomcat, the NIC is a Kingston,
> I think:
> 
> dc0: <82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfebfef00-0xfebfefff irq 11 at devic
> e 11.0 on pci0
> dc0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:f0:5b:4c:5f
> miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> 
> I'm not positive that the two CPUs are the same stepping but 
> the box does boot just fine and exhibits no other strange
> behavior -- the console is responsive and there are no 
> errors in dmesg.  Seems to me that if the chips weren't happy
> I'd see other errors.
> 
> Any Ideas? Is the dc driver broke under SMP?
> 
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707.522.1000 (Voice)                    Santa Rosa, CA 95404
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