Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:13:51 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curiously unable to access network - bce, 7.2-RELEASE on a HP blade server Message-ID: <hdm6tv$a03$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <hdm4o6$394$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <hdm4o6$394$1@ger.gmane.org>
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I forgot to attach hardware details: bce0: HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (B2) ASIC 0x57081021 Rev B2 B/C 0x04040105 Flags 2.5G Additional data point: I cannot reconfigure the card to 100 Mbit operation (currently in 1000baseSX autoselect, full-duplex). Ivan Voras wrote: > The symptoms are: > > * The device (bce0, bce1) comes up, is visible in ifconfig, can be > configured, is UP and RUNNING, everything looks fine > * Apparently, it simply doesn't work - no ping responses, TCP, nothing > * But tcpdump shows that the NIC apparently does receive multicast > router announcements, and some broadcast ARP traffic; only unicast seems > to be affected. > * Running "netstat 1" shows that apparently there are some packets > received - once a second or so, and the "err" counters are 0. > * Digging further, the dev.bce.0.stat_IfinFramesL2FilterDiscards > contains an increasing number, currently arround 57000 and the > dev.bce.0.stat_IfHCInBadOctets also contains an increasing number, > currently around 450,000, while ...InOctets is around 30,000 and > ...OutBadOctets is 0. > > From the sysctls it looks like maybe it's discarding valid input > packets. I've tried disabling rxcsum, txcsum and TSO without effect. > > I cannot upgrade or install 8.0 because newusb has some problems with > the hardware. > > Any ideas? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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