Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:51:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305240839170.14717@familysquires.net> In-Reply-To: <20130524012117.GE1672@glenbarber.us> References: <20130508174721.GD1651@glenbarber.us> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305112240040.1240@familysquires.net> <CAG=rPVf0W2U4OwRUzVB5TgVVX%2BAD44VL1fBCtLMiqtDSL%2Bg4Vg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305161103370.1222@familysquires.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305232013110.14717@familysquires.net> <20130524010943.GA37252@icarus.home.lan> <20130524012117.GE1672@glenbarber.us>
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I'll have access to the test box on Tuesday, will test a fixed IP number then. I'm unable to test that here since reinstalling 8.4 on the NAT box will require eventually reinstalling 8.3-RELEASE and I'm not the only one using the NAT box for Internet access. The test box had 8.3-RC3 installed from a downloaded 8.3-RC3 CD using installation from the CD and with all binaries taken off the CD. No changes were made after installation and reboot. I agree that this seems to be a problem only experienced by those still using the fxp interface and DHCP on a certain subset of Supermicro systems, which has to be a very small group. I did find one other reference to a similar problem at http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=61102.0) However, one of the posters was using 8.3p7 which predates my 8.3p8. The posters also report that this issue affects only a small subset of similar machines and can be solved by either changing the boot order of the connected systems (not possible for me) or by forcing fxp to 100Mbit full duplex, which I haven't tried. I definitely don't want this issue to hold up 8.4-RELEASE; if it is a problem it can be fixed for those affected with a patch after release. Mike Squires mikes@siralan.org msquires@iga.in.gov (where the test box lives)
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