From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 13 22:07:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61456240; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crodr001@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x22a.google.com (mail-la0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22a]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC6ADA5; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f42.google.com with SMTP id er20so3859321lab.29 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=zhIJzZtEO6qeFrSEddRt1nIzfFgBKM1/mkcX8tc61xg=; b=AXeoZ832Ex/U9JgI+4Yhe5d7JUTvEIgcvNl8o1vOVXIUWCqtyRNdkudVheBF7g++QF 9kz2gXOZm6nOhYTth9sFLoTxbzrTK+jt28Mgxs7fp8lLgfwwN0XDhmuHUr5EPDMozZsc nUTJBDSKdRQO3y99nW3RpGE0hwP3q8HIsHlkrmXbdasKw+mpifppVI6ot3QT3uGifezu BIUZqxjr0vgBfYxdzAix1ZN0YyLw0738NEZEr/wsIA4SwSNl3A1wNOAwse/zHRgyWXK2 RuCDRtgvADu61BAsnxGRTI0cJtpAy8JFatJjcdmeEuYDU4rPYZmixeSe8p8Mrr0/b1Rk POEg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.138.100 with SMTP id qp4mr14153885lbb.84.1368482818353; Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.2.73 with HTTP; Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20130508174721.GD1651@glenbarber.us> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:58 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hqW2FUMKQUu4KZM9xs12RjleUms Message-ID: Subject: Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 From: Craig Rodrigues To: "Michael L. Squires" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Glen Barber , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:07:00 -0000 On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Michael L. Squires wrote: > I upgraded to FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 and noticed a problem with the fxp driver on > an older Supermicro single CPU single core Xeon motherboard. > > I know that 8.3-Release does not have this issue, but don't know when in > the updates to that release the regression was introduced. > > I use the fxp driver to connect to a Motorola Surfboard cable modem, and > immediately saw the following occur many times: > > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp0): > 255.255.240.0 > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp0): > 255.255.25 > 5.255 > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Routers (fxp0): xx.xxx.xxx.1 > May 10 23:00:06 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New IP Address (fxp0): > xx.xxx.xxx.163 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp0): > 255.255.240.0 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp0): > 255.255.255.255 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Routers (fxp0): xx.xxx.xxx.1 > May 10 23:00:24 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP > > repeated without end. > I recently upgraded one of my systems from FreeBSD 7.4 to FreeBSD releng/8, and had DHCP problems. My system though is running a bge NIC, not fxp. I don't know if this solution can help your case, but I found that this helped me. I added the following line to my /etc/rc.conf: synchronous_dhclient="YES" Without that line, my system would not boot up properly with networking working. -- Craig