Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:13:04 -0800 From: Derrick MacPherson <dmacpherson@mainframe.ca> To: RacerX@makeworld.com Cc: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yesterday's -STABLE kernel corrupts LAN Message-ID: <4388A5B0.6070005@mainframe.ca> In-Reply-To: <4388A349.9080808@makeworld.com> References: <20051126182651.A966@www.pukruppa.net> <43889E27.2010209@makeworld.com> <20051126185500.I966@www.pukruppa.net> <4388A349.9080808@makeworld.com>
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Chris wrote: >P.U.Kruppa wrote: > > >>On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Chris wrote: >> >> >> >>>P.U.Kruppa wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>I updated -STABLE yesterday and since my FreeBSD machine is set up as >>>>gateway my home network broke down completely. I rebooted into last >>>>weeks kernel and everything worked as usual. >>>> >>>>Has anyone else seen this or have I been unlucky with my download? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Did you follow the instructions outlined on how to cvsup your system? >>>Did you forget a step? Do them out of order. >>> >>>There is a reason it's documented the way it is on the FBSD site. >>>Mainly - becasue it works. >>> >>>I'm sure then when you review what you have done - it's going to be >>>something you did wrong. >>> >>> >>So you updated your system yesterday and your LAN is still working >>correctly? >> >>Regards, >> >>Uli. >> >> > >Mine works just dandy > > > My friend posted late last night, on a problem we are seeing, Sub: Problem with FreeBSD 6 -STABLE and Dell PowerEdge 2850 spewing arp requests Pasted here: Hi All, I have a problem with FreeBSD 6 -Stable, i built the machine with -RELEASE and it's been running fine for the last few weeks.. Today i tryed to make the jump to -STABLE by running cvsup on the RELENG_6 branch, running makebuildworld/kernel which built fine without any errors.. upon the first reboot the machine did not come back up.. I went down to the data centre where the machine is COLO'd and saw the machine did boot the new kernel.. it just has no network connectivity.. The Machine is a Dell PowerEdge 2850, Raid 1 volume on the Perc4i controller.. there are 2 Intel 1000BT adaptors.. i poked around making sure there were no errors in the syslog etc.. the machine comes up fine as mentioned... and the only odd thing i found was 1) in the output of ps -aux there was over 100 IRQ's listed.. and 2) the network adapter is puking arp requests flooding the local network.. With no fix in sight i re-installed the source and base binary's from the installer which fixed the problem as the machine was back at -RELEASE.. it worked great.. i thought at first i may have had left over files in /usr/obj but from what i thought that should not affect the kernel build/install.. regardless i followed the handbook and removed the /usr/obj/usr dir and ran cvsup again to get the -STABLE source.. i ran make cleandir and started the process over again.. and once again after the kernel install the machine loses it's networking capabilities and starts spewing Arp requests... Could anyone offer any insight? Sorry about not having a dmesg but i dont have access to the machine at the moment as it's dead :P Thanks Rob.
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