From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 09:19:28 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 55DA316A4DA for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:19:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B555A43D55 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:19:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so1053470pye for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:19:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=gxddZc/BWWzdG07iGcxOoDdoyukXrpb6h92XU8woxpAfE4lBEcXOlhqTCbP8LD1fIrDX6wvMrEQx0Ulq/Cgg/jWIfSnOR8tJKsXprFg3mjsqLGCrRDzi/3noCxa9m+icepRSJBA5xYBHRmPrVlCBDUGGENU28WEtnBlISrnXSAE= Received: by 10.35.36.13 with SMTP id o13mr5475792pyj; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr ( [211.53.35.84]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 39sm786251nzk.2006.08.18.02.19.25; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (localhost.cdnetworks.co.kr [127.0.0.1]) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k7I9LlaM057685 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:21:47 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: (from yongari@localhost) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id k7I9LjTh057684; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:21:45 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:21:45 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20060818092145.GC55509@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <44E51C93.5090000@umn.edu> <20060818021643.GA74158@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060818021643.GA74158@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Alan Amesbury Subject: Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com 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 09:19:28 -0000 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