Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:03:17 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@kt-is.co.kr> Cc: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net> Subject: Re: Strange networking problem on SPARC64 Message-ID: <20040713010317.A43168@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <20040712111807.GB1909@kt-is.co.kr>; from yongari@kt-is.co.kr on Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:18:07PM %2B0900 References: <20040712110444.GA1157@frontfree.net> <20040712111807.GB1909@kt-is.co.kr>
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:18:07PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:04:44PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > > Hi, folks, > > > > My friend at Nankai University has a problem with Networking subsystem on > > FreeBSD/SPARC64. With a heavy FTP load, ipkterr raises rapidly. > > > > As I don't have sparc64 based hardware at hand, I send this mail on behalf > > of him with a hope that someone can give him some hints to figure out what > > is happening. Please fell free if I have missed some information and I will > > forward these to him. > > > > Hope we have provided useful information :-) fell free to ask us for more if > > necessary. > > > > Upgrading to -CURRENT does not solved the problem. After some experiences > > we believe that this is not due to a networking hardware/device error. Same > > hardware works well under other operating system. > > > > Here comes some detailed information: > > > ... > > hme0: <Sun HME 10/100 Ethernet> mem 0x8000-0xffff at device 1.1 on pci0 > > hme0: Ethernet address: 08:00:20:e6:8a:f0 > > miibus0: <MII bus> on hme0 > > nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 > ^^^^^^^ > > nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > ... > > /var: superblock summary recomputed > > hme0: invalid packet size 8422; dropping > > hme0: invalid packet size 7; dropping > > hme0: invalid packet size 7; dropping > > hme0: invalid packet size 7; dropping > > hme0: invalid packet size 7; dropping > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > See the commit log(if_hme.c rev 1.27) of marius. > Or see > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-sparc64&m=108942881831209&w=2 > Does reverting to 1.26 of if_hme.c really fix the problem or is it just a workaround because auto-negotation then establishes a 100mbit full-duplex link, i.e. is it also gone with 1.26 when using a half- duplex link?
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