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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:41:39 +0300
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org>
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:  <510035228.20110111224139@serebryakov.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20110111193644.GA38072@alchemy.franken.de>
References:  <1512738982.20110111124729@serebryakov.spb.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101111118360.3033@saya.home.yamagi.org> <122467803.20110111135330@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20110111193644.GA38072@alchemy.franken.de>

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Hello, Marius.
You wrote 11 =FF=ED=E2=E0=F0=FF 2011 =E3., 22:36:44:


>>   I've discussed this problem in local (Russian-speaking) FreeBSD
>> community, and there are several people in DC 13 who HAVE these
>> problems and found different solutions, but all non-technical ones:
>> order gigabit connectivity, or pay for moving servers to other (old)
>> DCs...
> If the latter means that the servers are physically moved as opposed
> to a new one being allocated this implies that re(4)/rgephy(4) isn't
> the sole factor responsible for this problem. In any case it would be
  It is known, that DC 13 has new Juniper e3k switches, and older DCs
have older Juniper equipment.

> helpful to have the corresponding dmesg bits as the Linux counterpart
> does some black magic for certain hardware versions when setting the
> media manually but re(4) doesn't which might be relevant in this
> scenario.
  Here it is from Rescue FreeBSD system:

re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe800-0x=
e8ff mem 0xfbeff000-0xfbefffff,0xf8ff0000-0xf8ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 o=
n pci6
re0: Using 1 MSI messages
re0: Chip rev. 0x3c000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00400000
miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,=
 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-=
FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
re0: Ethernet address: 6c:62:6d:a7:bb:37
re0: [FILTER]


 And, please note very strange output from Linux's mii-tool and
ethtool in previous my message to list: mismatch between "basic mode"
and "link partner".

--=20
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>




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