From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 00:19:07 2005 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 EA66E16A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:19:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave-sender-1932b5@seddon.ca) Received: from seddon.ca (seddon.ca [203.209.212.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 338D543D46 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:19:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave-sender-1932b5@seddon.ca) Received: (qmail 87253 invoked by uid 89); 22 Sep 2005 00:19:05 -0000 Received: by seddon.ca (tmda-sendmail, from uid 89); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:19:05 +1000 (EST) References: <432DAED7.9070404@benswebs.com> <20050921141311.GA40222@top.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20050921141311.GA40222@top.net.ua> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:19:03 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Dave+Seddon Message-ID: <1127348345.87179.TMDA@seddon.ca> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) Subject: Re: Problems with SK and EM network cards/drivers on my system X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: das-keyword-net.6770cb@seddon.ca List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:19:08 -0000 Greetings, There seems to be heaps of people on the list reporting errors with em cards and FreeBSD 5.4 -stable-ish (as in cvsup-ed within the last couple of months). Are there many people running these ok? Perhaps is not the network card so much as some other element of the computer? Regarding the below issue- what about spanning tree? Is portfast enabled? Regards, Dave Maxim Tuliuk writes: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 14:15 -0400, Benjamin Rosenblum wrote: > ... >> now the EM problem. >> >> when i am running a very high network load (streaming video, dumping >> ALOT of data across the network, etc) the network card disconnects (i >> loose pings and all my transfers drop) and 15-20 seconds later it pops >> up on the console with "em0: Link is up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex" and then >> it starts working again. again im at a dead wall and really want my >> network to work properly so i can do what i need to do. > > Hello! > I've same problems on 5.4-STABLE: > /var/run/dmesg.boot: > FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #5: Tue Sep 13 16:14:10 EEST 2005 > em0: port 0xbc00-0xbc1f mem 0xff8e0000-0xff8fffff irq 18 at device 1.0 on pci1 > em0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:f1:cf:7e:b6 > em0: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A > > /etc/rc.conf: > ifconfig_em0="inet ... netmask ... media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > > /var/log/messages: > Sep 20 15:51:40 tak kernel: em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex > Sep 20 17:01:40 tak kernel: em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex > Sep 20 18:48:16 tak kernel: em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex > > switch: Catalyst 3550 > I changed ports: 100M to 1GB and back; changed cables, but... > no positive results :( > -- > Maxim Tuliuk > WWW: http://primats.org.ua/~mt/ > ICQ: 21134222 > > The bike is absolute freedom of moving > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"