From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 14 20:50:11 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 0F0B41065695; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:50:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E548FC0A; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D954A19E023; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:50:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9615219E019; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:50:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4AFF17FF.9020802@quip.cz> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:50:07 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, 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 20:50:11 -0000 Ivan Voras wrote: > 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? Can it be related to this PR 134788? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=134788 (your problem sounds different, but anyway you can try 7-STABLE bce driver) Recent changes in bce driver fixed it for me. Miroslav Lachman