From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 15:26:53 2006 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 C6E4E16A5D9 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:26:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CDC43D70 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:26:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2683473wxd for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:26:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MS8+68oMZUuXGi5f0+wKMPg13oZ4b0A3uphy3JvVXbt4SmHGxG/bOlReOY+Htg6YBfPTymN6kFAAFpcOS6NQgRgEA/Z7vjtAAo165P/Py2DO0XHtH7nIyIkwc9hMXi0Rl8RXtCI8hZ4r54Pmy7YDkjJaNery8fnsLFT/sPb7pSk= Received: by 10.70.34.3 with SMTP id h3mr9989437wxh; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:26:38 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Dinesh Nair" In-Reply-To: <44FE864F.9040500@alphaque.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7a5fe4980609050208g716dc998l44b34360133cca46@mail.gmail.com> <20060905091820.A44392@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <44FE864F.9040500@alphaque.com> Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , Andrew Sinclair , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request status on sk(4) for 88E8053 Yukon PCI-E GbE 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: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:26:53 -0000 On 9/6/06, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > > On 09/05/06 17:19 Bjoern A. Zeeb said the following: > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Andrew Sinclair wrote: > > > >> $ pciconf -lv > >> ... > >> none2@pci2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00011179 chip=0x436211ab > >> rev=0x15 hdr=0x00 > >> vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' > >> device = '88E8053 Yukon PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (copper)' > >> class = network > >> subclass = ethernet > >> ... > > This is becoming a FAQ;) Search the archives of this list for example. > > Maybe start with > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-January/009543.html > > we've got a device with the same NIC (0x432611ab). however our attempts to > get it to work took two paths, both with less then stellar results: > > 1. attempting to force the sk(4) driver to recognize this card by > commenting out the ifdef not_yet works in that the driver recognizes the > card, but it then subsequently fails to work or receive/xmit packets. > constant "can not stop transfer of Tx descriptor" and "can not stop > transfer of Rx descriptor" messages which indicate a timeout failure on > reading a register. > > 2. using the driver provided by the link above, and it's newer 8.12.2.3 > version from the marvell website has the NIC recognized and working as a > myk(4) device with one caveat: the moment IPFILTER is turned on and even > with rules which permit all packets the card stops transmitting/receiving > packets. this wont do for us as the primary function of the box is a > firewall and we're using IPFILTER without an option of using PF or IPFW at > the moment. > I've had similar happen with this driver. If you change the net.inet.tcp.sendspace and net.inet.tcp.recvspace sysctls the card will do the same thing. My solution was to buy a new motherboard with Intel 82563EB connections. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/