From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 10 09:36:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B08106564A for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:36:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from kukulies.org (mail.kukulies.org [78.47.239.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37868FC08 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by kukulies.org (Postfix, from userid 5001) id DB1811AD860; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:28:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on kukulies.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=2.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received: from [172.27.4.215] (unknown [87.79.34.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kukulies.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 519F21AD85F for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:28:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5024D442.6090707@kukulies.org> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:28:34 +0200 From: "Christoph P.U. Kukulies" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: weird problem with 9.0 Release and ed0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:36:34 -0000 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: 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: 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