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Date:      Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:06:54 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        mgamsjager@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MSK nic driver issue
Message-ID:  <20100709.110654.926703890692688940.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikb9Ryi6tJgRg_9SRCJoftwRIB9KNlltziQDG9R@mail.gmail.com>

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In message: <AANLkTikb9Ryi6tJgRg_9SRCJoftwRIB9KNlltziQDG9R@mail.gmail.com>
            Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager@gmail.com> writes:
: Hello,
: 
: I have an issue with the MSK nic driver under 8-stable. problem is
: that during the kernel boot the link status changes couple of times.
: I'm experimenting with iscsi boot at the moment and just before  iscsi
: is scanning for luns the interface link status changes from up to down
: and back to up about 1s later. This is enough for iscsi to loose
: connection with the disk.
: 
: FXP nic works great and can boot from iscsi lun tho.
: 
: 
: this there a way to fix this?

You may need to debounce the status of the link reported by the
PHY...  That's what's causing this...

Warner


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