Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:29:28 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org> Subject: nfe/PXE problem, was Re: nve related LOR triggered by lots of small packets, and a hard hang Message-ID: <E1HPJcX-0002Jp-5g@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:59:08 %2B0900 .
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hope i don't get shot for highjacking :-) ... > I tried the latest, and it 'seems' to work ok if I boot of the disk, but still having > problems when booting via PXE: > > ... > nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP12 Networking Adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdc07 mem 0xfe02c000-0xfe02cfff irq 22 at device 20.0 on pci0 > nfe0: Ethernet address: 57:6c:a9:f3:18:00 > miibus1: <MII bus> on nfe0 > e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY> PHY 11 on miibus1 > e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > nfe0: [ITHREAD] > ... > nfs_diskless: no interface > ... > > danny > PS: maybe it's time to change the Subject:? > > Yes, but I guess PXE booting has nothing to do with nfe(4). > If my memory serve me right I've used 'options BOOTP_WIRED_TO=hme0' > to net-boot on sparc64. well, I can PXE boot this box if I use an fxp NIC, with the nfe I tracked the problem to sys/nfsclient/nfs_diskless, where in nfs_setup_diskless(void) it does not find the nfe interface, ie, something does not match, but the interface was detected!. i'll try and do some more debugging. danny
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