From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 9 02:57:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A721065670 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:57:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-ml@gehlbach.com) Received: from mail1.gehlbach.com (mail1.gehlbach.com [204.255.230.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D4C8FC12 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:57:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.gehlbach.com (localhost.gehlbach.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.gehlbach.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n992hXYT037987 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:43:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fbsd-ml@gehlbach.com) Received: from 204.255.230.80 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fbsd-ml) by mail1.gehlbach.com with HTTP; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:43:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <714a6980f53082ec41a527e44158128d.squirrel@mail1.gehlbach.com> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:43:33 -0400 (EDT) From: fbsd-ml@gehlbach.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Upgrade to 7.2 broke network connections 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, 09 Oct 2009 02:57:25 -0000 Today I updated a server from 6.4 to 7.2. I cvsup'ed, built world, built kernel, installed kernel, installed world, mergemastered, and rebooted. And sat there, while ntpdate timed out trying to connect to four different servers, while interface status messages slowly scrolled: tx0: device timeout 2 packets tx0: seems we can continue normally rl0: watchdog timeout When it finally timed out, and I logged in, I found that I could ping 127.0.0.1, I could ping 192.168.50.7 (tx0 interface), I could ping the rl0 wan interface, I could not ping the gateway or anything outside of the machine. Looking at dmesg later, I found the same timeout messages repeated again and again, and I found further error messages: tx0: reinitialization tx0: ERROR! Can't stop TxDMA tx0: ERROR! Unknown PHY selected and repeated periodically: tx0: reinitialization tx0: ERROR! Unknown PHY selected I built and installed the generic kernel, and tried again. Same deal. I disabled ipfilter and ntp in rc.conf, removed the configuration lines for all but one interface, and rebooted. Same deal, just shorter boot time without having to wait for ntpdate (grin) I thought, ok.....really old NICs. There were some warnings about deprecated features in bootup. I took out both NICs and put in an Intel Pro 10/100/1000 -- obviously supported. Same deal. I previously attempted to update this server several months ago, going from 6.something to 7.1, and had this same problem. After several frustrating days, I restored from backup and updated to latest 6.x, which worked fine. So I assume that I have something configured wrong. If there were hardware compatibility issues this big, this version would never have gone to stable, and people would be screaming about it all over the mailing lists. So my question is.....what should be my next troubleshooting step? Thanks for your time, Renee Gehlbach