Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 07:54:03 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" <maxsec@gmail.com> To: "Craig Russell" <crussell_1969@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wierd Network problem Message-ID: <72cf361e0705132354o39c81836gea8934324b45a777@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <543288.35459.qm@web51610.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <72cf361e0705130815o32094919kc754697b9f877638@mail.gmail.com> <543288.35459.qm@web51610.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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Craig applying the patch should be easy enough. You could always use something better than cpanel, I've always perferred directadmin myself. -- martin On 5/13/07, Craig Russell <crussell_1969@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Yes, I have tried different cables, even different > physical ports (although same type of port). There > was a bug filed against 6.1 for the bge interfaces > that maybe related, although the bug indicated > absolutely no network conductivity. There was a patch > released and I'm trying to recompile with that patch. > I must admit I'm having a hard time figuring out how > to apply the patch but once I get past that hurdle > I'll see what happens. > > If I can't ge the bge interface working my next best > solution will be to just install another card in one > of the pci slots and use that instead. Ideally, I > would upgrade to 6.2 but cpanel won't support 6.2 so > I'm stuck on 6.1 for the time being. > > Thanks for the reply, > > Craig Russell > > --- Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Criag > > > > have you tried cables? Could be a duff network cable > > or even speed mismatch > > between you and the router/switch. > > > > - > > martin > > > > On 5/12/07, Craig Russell <crussell_1969@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > I have a dell poweredge 6650 installed with > > freebsd > > > 6.1 and on the local router, everything works > > great > > > (ie, a computer on a different subnet off the same > > > router can access it fine) but coming from outside > > of > > > the network access is incredibly slow. My first > > > thought was that it must be a routing issue, but I > > > have two other freebsd 6.1 servers on that same > > subnet > > > and I can access them fine from outside. I dug a > > > little further and compared the servers that are > > > working with those that are not and these are the > > > differences that I have found. > > > > > > On the servers that are working (dell poweredge > > > 2450's) the interface is an fxp0 and here is the > > > output of ifconfig: > > > fxp0: > > > flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> > > mtu > > > 1500 > > > options=8<VLAN_MTU> > > > inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fee1:f66a%fxp0 prefixlen 64 > > > scopeid 0x1 > > > inet 64.25.218.2 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast > > > 64.25.218.127 > > > ether 00:b0:d0:e1:f6:6a > > > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX > > <full-duplex>) > > > status: active > > > > > > on the server that is not working: > > > > > > bge0: > > > flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> > > mtu > > > 1500 > > > options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> > > > inet6 fe80::211:43ff:fedc:9aa2%bge0 prefixlen 64 > > > scopeid 0x1 > > > inet 64.25.218.10 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast > > > 64.25.218.127 > > > ether 00:11:43:dc:9a:a2 > > > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX > > <full-duplex>) > > > status: active > > > > > > The first thing that i noticed is that on the > > option > > > line there is quite a bit of difference between > > the > > > two. So using the command line ifconfig tool I > > > removed RXCSUM, TXCSUM from the bge0 interface. > > > Voila! Speed increased and the server was > > actually > > > accessible from off net. Unfortunately, as soon > > as I > > > tried to access any other port, the interface > > crashes. > > > Eventually the watchdog picks up on that and > > restarts > > > the interface. But the problem is completely > > > repeatable. > > > > > > The server that I am having problems with is > > running > > > cpanel 10.9; the two that are working are running > > the > > > dns-only version of cpanel. I am not picking up > > any > > > errors in the logs. This could be related to > > cpanel, > > > or not, I'm not really sure, although it shouldn't > > be. > > > > > > The other unique thing about the setup, that very > > well > > > may be affecting is that the router in question > > has > > > two subnets configured on the internal port. > > There is > > > a nat'd subnet for our local users and there is > > the > > > public subnet that these servers sit on. The > > final > > > resting place for all three is in a datacenter > > that > > > isn't built yet, so rather than reconfigure > > everything > > > once that was done I simply routed the final > > subnet to > > > our office and set it up their. The router is a > > > mikrotik RB112 board which only has one ethernet > > port > > > so I couldn't dedicate a port for the new subnet. > > As > > > I said, my first thought was that the problem was > > in > > > the router, but the other two servers are running > > > fine. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Craig Russell > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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