Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:39 +0200 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> To: "Dewayne Geraghty" <dewayne.geraghty@heuristicsystems.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken re(4) Message-ID: <20080529155139.cb05360d.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <7827655D32C747BE861B939EDF20F6E3@hs> References: <20080527165232.2acbb00f.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20080528002823.GA63696@cdnetworks.co.kr> <20080528175610.0ffe4c1c.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20080529115825.2da70cba.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <7827655D32C747BE861B939EDF20F6E3@hs>
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On Thu, 29 May 2008 23:03:01 +1000 "Dewayne Geraghty" <dewayne.geraghty@heuristicsystems.com.au> wrote about RE: broken re(4): DG> You might try, after rebooting, to physically unplug and replug your DG> networking cables. I already did try that one or twice, without any success. DG> I have a few EN-15000 and SN-18000 motherboards attached to different DG> types of switches. With the SN-18000 on FreeBSD 7.0R-p1 to make the DG> vge NIC function even after rebooting I need to unplug the NIC's. DG> Doesn't matter what switch, or even using a crossover cable, the card DG> needs to reinitialise itself. This may be similar the problem that DG> you're experiencing. And as Pyon YongHyeon mentions there is a lot of DG> variety with rl and re cards, I also use re in my ITX motherboards, DG> without experiencing your issues. Sounds like I should play around with the cabeling some more. Thanks for the hint. DG> Also, after rebooting your machines try performing tcpdump -vv on the DG> interface that isn't working while (ie before & after) you try the DG> unplug/plug sequence. (vge's since 6.1R experience a lot of incorrect DG> checksums.) I'm suggesting these steps as they might also assist DG> others with clues to assist diagnoses with your re's) I ran tcpdump on the dead interface and remember seeing at least broadcast packages and such arriving from other machines. If I see an interface in this state again I will do some more debugging. Maybe it just cannot send packets, and is receiving just fine? cu Gerrit
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