Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:28:34 +0200 From: "Christoph P.U. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: weird problem with 9.0 Release and ed0 Message-ID: <5024D442.6090707@kukulies.org>
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The problem need not to be confined to 9.0. It stated to develop under 5.1 already. I'm running a natd gateway machine that was developing strange behaviour such that the outside interface (ed0, BNC connector) that was connected via a small media converter switch to the providers sync line had dropouts. The machine couldn't ping into the Internet and also couldn't be pinged. I first thought it was the switch/media converter, but another (Windows XP) machine that was on the same BNC cable worked flawlessly. So I decided to migrate that 5.1 machine to a 9.0 machine. The situation now is that I have the9.0 machine at the BNC cable and simultanously the old FreeBSD 5.1 gateway on the same BNC cable but through a TP adapter. This was the old machine works fine and I can care about the new machine. Is there a known problem with ed0 cards that have the Realtek 8029 chipset. Do they need some special flags like memory mapping or irq? When I for example boot the 9.0 machine the comping up of the em0 (on mainboard interface results in a highlighted kernel message on the console. The coming up of the ed0 is not flagged this way. And as a result the ed0 interface seems to be dead. Here some excerpts of dmesg: em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.2.3> port 0x4400-0x441f mem 0x93100000-0x9311ffff,0x93124000-0x93124fff irq 20 at device 25.0 on pci0 em0: Using an MSI interrupt em0: Ethernet address: 00:1c:c0:37:b2:9f ed0: <RealTek 8029> port 0x1000-0x101f irq 22 at device 1.0 on pci7 ed0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:7d:7c:2b:4a I also see this: Jul 30 23:03:54 forum ntpd[1711]: unable to create socket on ed0 (20) for fe80:: 2e0:7dff:fe7c:2b4a#123 Help appreciated. -- Christoph Kukulies
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