Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:09:43 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> To: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> Cc: YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 Message-ID: <20130524010943.GA37252@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305232013110.14717@familysquires.net> References: <20130508174721.GD1651@glenbarber.us> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305112240040.1240@familysquires.net> <CAG=rPVf0W2U4OwRUzVB5TgVVX%2BAD44VL1fBCtLMiqtDSL%2Bg4Vg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305161103370.1222@familysquires.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305232013110.14717@familysquires.net>
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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:18:33PM -0400, Michael L. Squires wrote: > I've just tested 8.4-RC3 using a different Supermicro 1U box with a fresh > installation of 8.4-RC3. I had problems with the installation, wouldn't > boot until I used a Windows 98 FDISK to write a master boot record > (no idea why; this system uses an Adaptec SATA 1.5 6-channel PCI-X > board with two > drives in RAID 1). > > Using the em0 interface there are no problems with DHCP; when I > switch to the fxp0 interface the interface starts going up/down in > the same manner as reported. > > The problem appears associated with "world", not with the kernel (running > the 8.4 kernel with the 8.3 world does not have this problem). > > This motherboard is an X5DPL-iGM with 2 Xeon 2.8GHz CPUs and 4 GB of RAM. > The other unit (an earlier board) has a Serverworks chipset with a single > Xeon CPU but also with a 100Mbit Intel Pro100 Ethernet port and a 1000Mbit > Intel Pro1000 Ethernet port. > > This unit isn't doing anything useful, so testing isn't a problem. Mike, Yong-Hyeon asked you a very important question which you didn't answer: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-May/073458.html If you assign a static IP address, does fxp0 behave properly? I'm also re-adding Yong-Hyeon to the CC list here. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
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