Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:57:22 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SunFire X2200 ilo's bge1 DOWN/UP Message-ID: <E1UhEmY-000HB3-8q@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20130528064931.GA61056@icarus.home.lan> References: <E1UgsL2-000DBa-El@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <20130528052953.GA1457@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <E1UhDO4-000Dr7-PJ@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <20130528064931.GA61056@icarus.home.lan>
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-------- [...] > 1. r248226 in head was MFC'd to stable/9 as r248858. Validation: > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c?view=log > > So the answer: whether or not you have that MFC in stable/9 depends on > what SVN rev your kernel is. I do a svnsync then I convert to mercurial so from the svn logs I see that the highest rev number is 250960. [...] > <rant> > That "piggybacking" crap never should have been invented. All it has > done is cause problems for every OS I know of (including Windows) since > its inception, and is also exactly why today almost all vendors I've > seen provide a dedicated NIC and RJ45 port for the iLO/IPMI interface. > It's admission the "piggybacking" method doesn't work. And may it rot > in hell for all I care, while simultaneously feeling very sorry for > those who have to suffer/deal with it. > > This is just another reason why I've always been very picky about what > hardware I'd buy for server deployments. Vendors never actually > disclose this crap until you've shelled out money for the hardware, by > which point it's too late and you're suffering. Really great model -- > for the pocketbook. :/ > </rant> I couldn't agree more! [...] in the case of the SunFire X2200, it has 4 bge ports, the 2nd, bge1, is only used by the ilo, it's not enabled (UP'ed), it doesn't have an interrupt assigned, it's, as far as I can tell, just anoying to have the DOWN/UP messages - unless something more sinester is lurking. thanks, danny
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