Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:56:12 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> To: Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> Subject: Re: Juniper e3k with ports limitied to 100Mbit and re NICs on MSI MoBo: problems with duplex negotiation (Hetzner host provider discard FreeBSD support due this bug) Message-ID: <20110111105012.X14966@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101111118360.3033@saya.home.yamagi.org> References: <1512738982.20110111124729@serebryakov.spb.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101111118360.3033@saya.home.yamagi.org>
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Yamagi Burmeister wrote:
>> Very large and famous (due to very attractive prices) hosting
>> provider Hetzner.de discards FreeBSD support on dedicated servers,
>> because these servers can niot negotiate 100Mbit/DUPLEX when
>> switches' ports are limited to 100Mbit (1Gbit connection costs
>> additional money) only under FreeBSD. Linux works fine.
>>
>> Switches known to be Juniper e3k series.
...
> I've got several Hetzner EQ4 and on all these machines FreeBSD 8.1 runs
> just fine. I've never seen this strange negotiation problem myself. But
> maybe I was just lucky and got working mainboard and nic combinations.
> So if further information is needed, I'm happy to provide it.
A lot of us do. There is a problem with the re(4) setup as well in
that if you do not send packets out yourself the port takes a very
long time to come up and unblocked. I haven't discussed that with
them or tested with an updated HEAD (since end of October).
But yes, I am running HEAD on an EQ4 as well. If you have problems
and a personal email contact at Hetzner feel free to talk to me.
I am "local" (a couple of 100km away in the same country) and a FreeBSD
committer and I can probably figure things out with them or properly
proxy requests.
/bz
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