Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:50:07 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curiously unable to access network - bce, 7.2-RELEASE on a HP blade server Message-ID: <4AFF17FF.9020802@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <hdm6tv$a03$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <hdm4o6$394$1@ger.gmane.org> <hdm6tv$a03$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > I forgot to attach hardware details: > > bce0: HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (B2) ASIC > 0x57081021 Rev B2 B/C 0x04040105 Flags 2.5G > > Additional data point: I cannot reconfigure the card to 100 Mbit > operation (currently in 1000baseSX autoselect, full-duplex). > > Ivan Voras wrote: >> The symptoms are: >> >> * The device (bce0, bce1) comes up, is visible in ifconfig, can be >> configured, is UP and RUNNING, everything looks fine >> * Apparently, it simply doesn't work - no ping responses, TCP, nothing >> * But tcpdump shows that the NIC apparently does receive multicast >> router announcements, and some broadcast ARP traffic; only unicast >> seems to be affected. >> * Running "netstat 1" shows that apparently there are some packets >> received - once a second or so, and the "err" counters are 0. >> * Digging further, the dev.bce.0.stat_IfinFramesL2FilterDiscards >> contains an increasing number, currently arround 57000 and the >> dev.bce.0.stat_IfHCInBadOctets also contains an increasing number, >> currently around 450,000, while ...InOctets is around 30,000 and >> ...OutBadOctets is 0. >> >> From the sysctls it looks like maybe it's discarding valid input >> packets. I've tried disabling rxcsum, txcsum and TSO without effect. >> >> I cannot upgrade or install 8.0 because newusb has some problems with >> the hardware. >> >> Any ideas? Can it be related to this PR 134788? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=134788 (your problem sounds different, but anyway you can try 7-STABLE bce driver) Recent changes in bce driver fixed it for me. Miroslav Lachman
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