From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 13:51:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591231065671 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 13:51:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from mrelay1.uni-hannover.de (mrelay1.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FA68FC14 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 13:51:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (www.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.2]) by mrelay1.uni-hannover.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4TDpdxJ031749; Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:40 +0200 Received: from pmp.uni-hannover.de (arc.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.1]) by www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BA6072; Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:39 +0200 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: "Dewayne Geraghty" Message-Id: <20080529155139.cb05360d.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <7827655D32C747BE861B939EDF20F6E3@hs> References: <20080527165232.2acbb00f.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20080528002823.GA63696@cdnetworks.co.kr> <20080528175610.0ffe4c1c.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20080529115825.2da70cba.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <7827655D32C747BE861B939EDF20F6E3@hs> Organization: Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Gravitationsphysik & IGP =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t?= Hannover) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.5.29.63722 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken re(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:51:43 -0000 On Thu, 29 May 2008 23:03:01 +1000 "Dewayne Geraghty" wrote about RE: broken re(4): DG> You might try, after rebooting, to physically unplug and replug your DG> networking cables. I already did try that one or twice, without any success. DG> I have a few EN-15000 and SN-18000 motherboards attached to different DG> types of switches. With the SN-18000 on FreeBSD 7.0R-p1 to make the DG> vge NIC function even after rebooting I need to unplug the NIC's. DG> Doesn't matter what switch, or even using a crossover cable, the card DG> needs to reinitialise itself. This may be similar the problem that DG> you're experiencing. And as Pyon YongHyeon mentions there is a lot of DG> variety with rl and re cards, I also use re in my ITX motherboards, DG> without experiencing your issues. Sounds like I should play around with the cabeling some more. Thanks for the hint. DG> Also, after rebooting your machines try performing tcpdump -vv on the DG> interface that isn't working while (ie before & after) you try the DG> unplug/plug sequence. (vge's since 6.1R experience a lot of incorrect DG> checksums.) I'm suggesting these steps as they might also assist DG> others with clues to assist diagnoses with your re's) I ran tcpdump on the dead interface and remember seeing at least broadcast packages and such arriving from other machines. If I see an interface in this state again I will do some more debugging. Maybe it just cannot send packets, and is receiving just fine? cu Gerrit