From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 04:54:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09EEF16A402 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:54:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dparussalla@baysidegrp.com.au) Received: from baysidegrp.com.au (gateway.baysidegrp.com.au [61.88.141.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63A4513C441 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:54:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dparussalla@baysidegrp.com.au) Received: (qmail 43488 invoked by uid 0); 15 Feb 2007 15:55:19 +1100 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 43479, pid: 43484, t: 0.0266s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:42/d:2434 spam: 3.1.7 Received: from unknown (HELO dimuthu) (192.168.1.216) by baysidegrp with SMTP; 15 Feb 2007 15:55:19 +1100 From: "Dimuthu Parussalla" To: "'Jeremy Chadwick'" Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:54:18 +1100 Message-ID: <000b01c750bd$5a2d55b0$d801a8c0@dimuthu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <20070215043533.GA3293@icarus.home.lan> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, 'Glen Van Lehn' Subject: RE: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dparussalla@baysidegrp.com.au List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:54:37 -0000 Hi, Dmesg output related to bge as follows. miibus0: on bge0 brgphy0: on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:11:25:e9:7f:58 bge0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcib6: at device 5.0 on pci0 pci8: on pcib6 bge1: mem 0xc6ff0000-0xc6ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci8 miibus1: on bge1 brgphy1: on miibus1 brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge1: Ethernet address: 00:11:25:e9:7f:59 bge1: [GIANT-LOCKED] -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:koitsu@FreeBSD.org] Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2007 3:36 PM To: Dimuthu Parussalla Cc: 'Glen Van Lehn'; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2 On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:09:08PM +1100, Dimuthu Parussalla wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just noticed when this incident happens Ierrs starting to increase and > then interface in not pingable. Refer to output below. > > Also how do I set the interface in rc.conf to use 1000baseTX. Without using > to autoselect? You can do the following: ifconfig_bge0="inet xxx netmask yyy media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" ifconfig_bge1="inet xxx netmask yyy media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" See the bge(4) manpage for additional details. Also, which particular Broadcom chip are you using? dmesg(8) should show this, or pciconf -l -v. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |