From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 9 23:12:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cecov.masternet.it (cecov.masternet.it [194.184.65.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2892137B422 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 23:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suzy.scotty.masternet.it (modem03.masternet.it [194.184.65.63]) by cecov.masternet.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA23306 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:59:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000910075331.023fb5d0@194.184.65.7> X-Sender: gmarco@194.184.65.7 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 08:11:23 +0200 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: Token Ring ?? I am using, but ... In-Reply-To: <39BB010C.6DA26A06@softweyr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Token ring is supported and works quite well in FreeBSD. I am using a couple of card on a box to connect an entire network to the Internet (about 200 boxes). I have only a problem, or at least it seems to me a problem :-) I posted the following message to token-ring and questions mailing lists and directly to the author of the driver without having received any answer. So I post it here because I see someone that perhaps can answer (surely) to this :-) --- begin old message --- I have installed a FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE box with two olicom token ring cards. Everything seems to works fine except for the fact that one of these card has a lot of errors. Aug 9 19:00:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: receive error 3 Aug 9 19:01:22 freebsd last message repeated 7 times Aug 9 19:03:23 freebsd last message repeated 480 times Aug 9 19:13:28 freebsd last message repeated 7496 times Aug 9 19:23:29 freebsd last message repeated 7019 times Aug 9 19:33:30 freebsd last message repeated 3714 times Aug 9 19:43:32 freebsd last message repeated 38062 times Aug 9 19:48:07 freebsd last message repeated 5112 times What does this error (error 3) means ? Performance seems not be affected but it is quite annoying because it fills up every system logs. Is possible to correct it ? Is it harmless ? This is a piece of the boot message: Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: Tue Jul 25 23:43:13 CEST 2000 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: gmarco@freebsd.consiag.it:/usr/src/sys/compile/FREEBSD Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 166194007 Hz Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: CPU: Pentium/P54C (166.19-MHz 586-class CPU) Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping = 12 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: Features=0x1bf Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: avail memory = 127803392 (124808K bytes) Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02b6000. Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: md0: Malloc disk Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: npx0: on motherboard Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: pcib0: on motherboard Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: pci0: on pcib0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: isab0: at device 1.0 on pci0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: isa0: on isab0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: pci0: at 1.1 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: pci0: at 1.2 irq 15 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: ahc0: port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0x80000000-0x80000fff irq 14 at device 6.0 on pci0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: port 0x4440-0x447f irq 11 at device 7.0 on pci0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: enabling bus master mode Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: MAC address 00:00:83:2b:63:db Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: adapter self-test complete (status=0) Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: pci0: at 8.0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr1: port 0x4400-0x443f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr1: enabling bus master mode Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr1: MAC address 00:00:83:2b:63:df Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: oltr1: adapter self-test complete (status=0) Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Jul 29 19:36:47 freebsd /kernel: sc0: on isa0 Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: sio0: type 16550A Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: sio1: type 16550A Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: ppc0: at port 0x278-0x27f irq 7 on isa0 Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: lpt0: on ppbus0 Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: lpt0: Interrupt-driven port Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, unlimited logging Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: cd0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 15) Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: da1: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: da1: 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C) Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: da0: 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C) Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: oltr0: ring insert (16 Mbps - TXI) Jul 29 19:36:48 freebsd /kernel: oltr1: ring insert (16 Mbps - TKP) The interesting thing is that the two cards use different (automatic) configured setting (TXI, TKP). Oltr1 never experiences errors so what does it means ? May this be the problem ? And if yes how I can configure it ? man oltr seems not to exist anymore in my 4.1-STABLE . Here are more informations: freebsd:/home/gmarco# ifconfig -a oltr0: flags=143 mtu 1500 inet 172.16.16.239 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 172.16.31.255 lladdr 00:00:83:2b:63:db media: UTP/16Mbit () supported media: UTP/16Mbit UTP/4Mbit oltr1: flags=143 mtu 1500 inet 213.26.243.210 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 213.26.243.223 lladdr 00:00:83:2b:63:df media: UTP/16Mbit () supported media: UTP/16Mbit UTP/4Mbit lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 freebsd:/home/gmarco# uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.consiag.it 4.1-RC FreeBSD 4.1-RC #0: Tue Jul 25 23:43:13 CEST 2000 gmarco@freebsd.consiag.it:/usr/src/sys/compile/FREEBSD i386 freebsd:/home/gmarco# Thanks to everyone for attention. Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message