From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 14 12:14:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1FD1065670 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1718FC1A for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N9HWC-000647-0E for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:14:16 +0100 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:14:15 +0100 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:14:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:13:51 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090928) In-Reply-To: Sender: news Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Curiously unable to access network - bce, 7.2-RELEASE on a HP blade server X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:14:17 -0000 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" >