Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:58 -0700 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> To: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 Message-ID: <CAG=rPVf0W2U4OwRUzVB5TgVVX%2BAD44VL1fBCtLMiqtDSL%2Bg4Vg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305112240040.1240@familysquires.net> References: <20130508174721.GD1651@glenbarber.us> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305112240040.1240@familysquires.net>
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On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Michael L. Squires <mikes@siralan.org>wrote: > I upgraded to FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 and noticed a problem with the fxp driver on > an older Supermicro single CPU single core Xeon motherboard. > > I know that 8.3-Release does not have this issue, but don't know when in > the updates to that release the regression was introduced. > > I use the fxp driver to connect to a Motorola Surfboard cable modem, and > immediately saw the following occur many times: > > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp0): > 255.255.240.0 > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp0): > 255.255.25 > 5.255 > May 10 23:00:04 familysquires dhclient: New Routers (fxp0): xx.xxx.xxx.1 > May 10 23:00:06 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New IP Address (fxp0): > xx.xxx.xxx.163 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp0): > 255.255.240.0 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp0): > 255.255.255.255 > May 10 23:00:22 familysquires dhclient: New Routers (fxp0): xx.xxx.xxx.1 > May 10 23:00:24 familysquires kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP > > repeated without end. > I recently upgraded one of my systems from FreeBSD 7.4 to FreeBSD releng/8, and had DHCP problems. My system though is running a bge NIC, not fxp. I don't know if this solution can help your case, but I found that this helped me. I added the following line to my /etc/rc.conf: synchronous_dhclient="YES" Without that line, my system would not boot up properly with networking working. -- Craig
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