From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 09:13:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406C11065671 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:13:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianf@clue.co.za) Received: from munchkin.clue.co.za (munchkin.clue.co.za [66.219.59.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C648FC16 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:13:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianf@clue.co.za) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=20070313; d=clue.co.za; h=Received:Received:Received:To:Subject:From:X-Attribution:Date:Message-Id; b=xRRScGjkibcr0sGMeEWZW6wLJ8rK4VISXkli9pyW8JHhyGxY3pdsZeEN0fRRyhHdf4lbkmA8kT5L90nV3jfeuxy6YJKsV6uz9t1TKCdqL6IHk77+oZ4aCvShmj4ce2gnayrHZkSY4I55l8G59+P4MzIGAo0J0SVXzfeHMOiAg9P4y4DHartLvEpps1vTqqJzdQRajiEhVQNIH9iycVVkpJlkQAP5ZUd56JsO0ypPg1c5qFz1UX7MjcIKzEieDrVZ; Received: from uucp by munchkin.clue.co.za with local-rmail (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KQf4w-0008IS-8K for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:13:10 +0000 Received: from ianf.clue.co.za ([10.0.0.6] helo=clue.co.za) by urchin.clue.co.za with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KQf4d-0004D6-GW for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:12:51 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=clue.co.za) by clue.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KQf4c-00076Z-4i for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:12:50 +0200 To: current@freebsd.org From: Ian FREISLICH X-Attribution: BOFH Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:12:50 +0200 Message-Id: Cc: Subject: bce(4) network wierdness X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:13:11 -0000 Hi Periodically (initially I thought it was related to bgfsck) but I've just had the problem again after 6 days of uptime with no provocation. I get massive packet loss and out of order delivery as evidenced below. 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1351.206 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=2214.913 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=3616.881 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=0.090 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=1417.588 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=924.168 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=1001.294 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=117.199 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=1372.514 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=943.103 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=4041.519 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=24 ttl=64 time=1430.088 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=26 ttl=64 time=1770.405 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=28 ttl=64 time=426.317 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=31 ttl=64 time=748.205 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=66 ttl=64 time=3623.306 ms 64 bytes from 41.161.56.2: icmp_seq=104 ttl=64 time=1653.222 ms Kernel messages at the time: Aug 6 08:06:04 firewall1 kernel: bce0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967292 pkt len 4294967292) Aug 6 08:06:16 firewall1 last message repeated 190 times Hardware is: bce0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x02231028 chip=0x164c14e4 rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = '5708C Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet I'm running vlans and carp with polling on top of this. This is the builtin NIC on a Del R905. Ian -- Ian Freislich