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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:40:08 +0900
From:      YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Tom Judge <tj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bxe + if_lagg
Message-ID:  <20121101004008.GA3154@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <50914C51.50407@freebsd.org>
References:  <508FF0F9.9020105@freebsd.org> <20121031074737.GB1471@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <50914C51.50407@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:05:37PM -0400, Tom Judge wrote:
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> On 10/31/12 3:47 AM, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:23:37AM -0400, Tom Judge wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> I am trying to get if_lagg working in an HP blade for failover
> >> between the 2 in chassis cisco switches, but it would seem that
> >> the link state is not being propagated up to the lagg device.
> >> 
> >> Any hints/ideas?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> dmesg: bxe1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711E 10GbE (A0) BXE
> >> v:1.5.52 bxe1: Ethernet address: 00:25:b3:a8:76:e4 bxe1: ASIC
> >> (0x16500000); Rev (A0); Bus (PCIe x4, 5Gbps); Flags (MSI-X);
> >> Queues (RSS:16); BD's (RX:510,TX:255); Firmware (5.2.13); 
> >> Bootcode (4.8.0)
> >> 
> > 
> > Try attached patch and let me know whether it makes any
> > difference.
> > 
> 
> This results in zero network connectivity, even with an IP assigned to
> the bxe device directly.
> 
> It does show status: active and the same 10Gbase-SR media however.
> 
> Ping results in no route to host.

:-(

It seems upper stack still thinks link is down so it didn't even
bother to send any packets.  Probably that was the reason why
bxe(4) did not announce IFCAP_LINKSTATE capability to stack.
It seems slow path handler(link state change tracker) does not work
as expected.



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