From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 13:54:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D6B16A41F for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:54:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from psmtp.com (s200aob14.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6351A13C458 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:54:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from source ([217.206.187.80]) by eu1sys200aob014.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:54:24 UTC Received: from [10.0.0.89] (bill.mintel.co.uk [10.0.0.89]) by rodney.mintel.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E99181423 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:54:24 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <46680DB1.9050905@tomjudge.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:52:49 +0100 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:54:35 -0000 Hi, I am seeing some problems with one of my Dell PowerEdge 2950's (running RELENG_6_2) on board bce NICs. The interface seems to crash with the following errors, to which the fix seems to be and "ifconfig bce0 down; ifconfig bce0 up": Jun 7 12:20:29 gonzo kernel: bce0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967292 pkt len 4294967292) Jun 7 12:20:29 gonzo last message repeated 54 times Jun 7 12:20:58 gonzo kernel: nfs server nfs-server:/usr/home: not responding Is this a know problem? If so is there a solution? Tom #uname -a FreeBSD gonzo.mintel.co.uk 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #10: Thu Apr 5 10:53:39 BST 2007 root@roley.mintel.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PE2950 amd64 amd64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz FreeBSD ## dmesg.boot snippet bce0: mem 0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9 bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081020; Revision (B2); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz miibus0: on bce0 brgphy0: on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bce0: Ethernet address: 00:18:8b:88:d8:81 ## pciconf -lv snippet bce0@pci9:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01b21028 chip=0x164c14e4 rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = network subclass = ethernet #ifconfig bce0 bce0: flags=8843 mtu 8192 options=3b inet 172.31.0.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.31.0.255 inet 172.31.0.157 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.31.0.157 inet 172.31.0.161 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.31.0.161 ether 00:18:8b:88:d8:81 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX ) status: active #Switch port counters console# show interfaces counters ethernet g10 Port InOctets InUcastPkts InMcastPkts InBcastPkts ---------------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- g10 2615415297 87563987 0 13480 Port OutOctets OutUcastPkts OutMcastPkts OutBcastPkts ---------------- ---------- ------------ ------------ ------------ g10 2535595313 136391705 10740316 1420686 FCS Errors: 0 Single Collision Frames: 0 Late Collisions: 0 Excessive Collisions: 0 Internal MAC Tx Errors: 0 Oversize Packets: 0 Internal MAC Rx Errors: 0 Received Pause Frames: 0 Transmitted Pause Frames: 0