From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 02:16:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1547C16A4DA for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:16:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB77F43D58 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:16:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) id k7I2GhF2016008; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:16:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:16:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Alan Amesbury Message-ID: <20060818021643.GA74158@dan.emsphone.com> References: <44E51C93.5090000@umn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44E51C93.5090000@umn.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850 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: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:16:45 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: > OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem..... I have > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some > reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly > adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware. > FreeBSD identifies these adapters as BCM5750A1, but Dell says they're > actually Broadcom 5721J adapters instead. See > > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/850_specs.pdf > > for details. The switch to which the host is connected is a Cisco > Catalyst 3750. How this relates to FreeBSD, however..... Have you enabled portfast on the Cisco? http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/12.html#c2k Another thing to check is whether you have alias IPs. I believe the bge driver has to reset the card every time you add or remove an IP. I know the ti driver (whose chipset the broadcom chips are based on) had that problem. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com