Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:16:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Alan Amesbury <amesbury@umn.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850 Message-ID: <20060818021643.GA74158@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <44E51C93.5090000@umn.edu> References: <44E51C93.5090000@umn.edu>
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In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: > OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem..... I have > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some > reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly > adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware. > FreeBSD identifies these adapters as BCM5750A1, but Dell says they're > actually Broadcom 5721J adapters instead. See > > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/850_specs.pdf > > for details. The switch to which the host is connected is a Cisco > Catalyst 3750. How this relates to FreeBSD, however..... Have you enabled portfast on the Cisco? http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/12.html#c2k Another thing to check is whether you have alias IPs. I believe the bge driver has to reset the card every time you add or remove an IP. I know the ti driver (whose chipset the broadcom chips are based on) had that problem. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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