Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:57:33 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> 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 Message-ID: <9bbcef730911141257w4d7b7f1tc3fb18c5bdcfe57a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AFF17FF.9020802@quip.cz> References: <hdm4o6$394$1@ger.gmane.org> <hdm6tv$a03$1@ger.gmane.org> <4AFF17FF.9020802@quip.cz>
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2009/11/14 Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>: > 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. I did try booting 8.0 and found the same problem (though I cannot install 8.0 because of an unrelated problem with newusb). Judging by the dates in the PR, the fix should also be present in 8.home | help
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