From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 05:31:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47F716A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 05:31:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7207B43D41 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 05:31:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garbage@injvstice.com) Received: from unknown (HELO rapt0r) (drop?box@sbcglobal.net@70.241.29.105 with login) by smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2004 05:31:30 -0000 From: "Val P" To: Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:31:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-Index: AcTK1EoucZQRx97wSyqJuI404sR5Ug== Message-Id: <20041115053131.7207B43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: OACTIVE on bge X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 05:31:31 -0000 We have a bridge running fbsd 4.8, and both ends of the interface are running broadcomm gigabit fiber NICs (bge2 and bge3). Periodically we see the bridge lock up with bge2 in state OACTIVE. We have resorted to having a script that periodically checks ifconfig and downs/reups the offending iface when this happens. Of course, sometimes this starts happening quite often and it creates havoc with established connections. This is not a good solution, but it's best we could have come up with. We are using this bridge in conjunction with IPF as a transparent firewall. Is this a known issue? Is there something we can fix? We are happy with 4.x but we'd consider upgrading to 5.3 if it fixed this problem. The bridge connects an Extreme Networks Black Diamond and a Foundry Big Iron... Here's the state when this happens: bge2: flags=8943 mtu 1500 options=3 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX ) status: active bge3: flags=9d43 \ mtu 1500 options=3 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX ) status: active ... 2139/2256/26624 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 2139 mbufs allocated to data 1584/1692/6656 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 3948 Kbytes allocated to network (19% of mb_map in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines