Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:21:45 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Alan Amesbury <amesbury@umn.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850 Message-ID: <20060818092145.GC55509@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <20060818021643.GA74158@dan.emsphone.com> References: <44E51C93.5090000@umn.edu> <20060818021643.GA74158@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:16:43PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. > If there is a way to program multicasting filters correctly without resettting the hardware there is no need to reset hardware and it could be easily implemented in ether_ioctl(). -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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