Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:24:46 +0000 From: "Chris Rees" <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARP problem with 6.2-STABLE Intel PRO/1000 NIC, latest em Message-ID: <b79ecaef0703060224o77c29220p71b3cfefc3e06ab4@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/4/07, Duane Whitty <duane@dwlabs.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:30:07PM -0700, Mark Costlow wrote: > > The Machine: > > > > I have a dual Xeon 5130 machine, Supermicro motherboard, with > > the 82563EB NIC. From dmesg: > > > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz (2000.08-MHz 686-class CPU) > > cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 > > em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9> port 0x2000-0x201f mem 0xda000000-0xda01ffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 > > > > The machine has 4G RAM and a 3ware 9000 series RAID controller with 2 drives. > > > > pciconf -l says: > > > > em0@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x000015d9 chip=0x10968086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > em1@pci4:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0x000015d9 chip=0x10968086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > >> I plugged in a USB ethernet adapter (realtek), and it works straight away. > >> "tcpdump -n arp" sees the same noise as other machines on that LAN. >> > > >> Sounds like it could be bad hardware. Can you swap nics? >No he can't these are LOMs (on the motherboard). > >> I read through the recent threads on the em driver, but didn't see any > >> reported symptoms like this. Has anyone seen anything like this? Got > >> any hints for me? Am I doing something stupid? Did I leave out any > >> useful information about my configuration? >> > >> >> Maybe more of your dmesg might help as it could show interrrupt issues >> that perhaps others could help diagnose >Yes, agreed, this might be revealing. >Jack If your NIC is knackered, where are you from? I can post you one I'm not using, instead of you buying one. It's a Realtek PCI 8139 10/100 Mb/s. Let me know if you're interested. Chris
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