Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:59:08 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Jason Mann <jason-freebsdlists@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hme driver acting strangely Message-ID: <20040305105639.K470@light.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <20040305164638.GA47394@beastie.b0rken.org> References: <20040305164638.GA47394@beastie.b0rken.org>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jason Mann wrote: > Hi folks. > > I'm running 5.2-RELEASE on a Sun Ultra 5 machine. > > It has an on-board Happy Meal ethernet interface, which is handled by the > 'hme' driver. > > If I configure the interface without specifying media and mediaopt, it will > not establish a full-duplex link with the switch, but otherwise works fine. The hme is relatively old hardware. I don't believe it supports auto-negotiation. > If I configure the interface, explicitly specifying full-duplex for the > mediaopt, a full-duplex link is established, however, no programs can bind > to UDP ports on that interface. Examples of such programs are named (BIND) > and ntpd. Logs from named are shown below. ... Well, that is strange. But is probably better off. You have a non-managable switch, which would depend on auto-negotiation. By configurating static settings you are disabling auto-negotiation (assuming the hme hardware even supports it to begin with). Tom
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