From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 10:49:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9620416A403 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:49:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A97813C4AC for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:49:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so136405ugh for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:49:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=YhC07Ew3i2GYb5SdivnVK5YTI/RrvI+SjV5F030BtJoPFyUR+Vt/pfiMgsOcgCBVOKp1r+fsLoOUQiyIN2p8VR/Ks0ihK+P5T4OuEcHfW2BwPgYwvZqGZwFmfz/rkFIYmlKLcSB6Ld0KQtyA5nn5r+eGI2AkjlToM+EFDZeA4CU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=s0MSu5ZEfDMLuiLxlsteI/w0tyAD4TpVtc1v8EJoAGSXerqPUHL+GJWnU4AQRCcAJ2d8K8b8OXKECMmX/Hjq74Kq+YUna6hiSLI7GrbgkIt6LJWIFRB1bhu4ChJrZxvMPYA5zt1zwQSOpUezC0+bPwX3klV38+SjdfRiUs11BE0= Received: by 10.66.232.9 with SMTP id e9mr1344061ugh.1173176686986; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:24:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.30.15 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 02:24:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:24:46 +0000 From: "Chris Rees" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: ARP problem with 6.2-STABLE Intel PRO/1000 NIC, latest em X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:49:39 -0000 On 3/4/07, Duane Whitty 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: on acpi0 > > em0: 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