From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 19:44:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6815D16A415; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E0043D90; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:44:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by caelis.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA3B92FDBF; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:44:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org ([217.148.169.59]) by localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84452-01; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:44:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.2.125] (evilcoder.xs4all.nl [195.64.94.120]) by caelis.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476EE92FCD3; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:44:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4537D5A0.6090004@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:44:32 +0200 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel References: <2a41acea0610181046k822afd1qcec4187dc8514187@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea0610181531y732cd5sa7bf733cc445491c@mail.gmail.com> <20061018171704.A3851@demos.bsdclusters.com> <4537C126.5000207@FreeBSD.org> <2a41acea0610191140j13d43e12q72fc7697652e222a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0610191140j13d43e12q72fc7697652e222a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by the elvandar.org maildomain Cc: freebsd-net , Kip Macy , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em network issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: remko@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:44:50 -0000 Jack Vogel wrote: > On 10/19/06, Remko Lodder wrote: >> Kip Macy wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jack Vogel wrote: >> >> I'm a bit confused from the way you worded this, do you have watchdogs >> >> with em, or you use em to avoid them? >> > >> > I have watchdogs with the current (post vendor update) em driver, but >> > not with an older (pre vendor update) version of it. >> > >> >> Same here! >> >> Didn't had the problem prior to the update, after the update it >> started doing watchdog timeouts, occassionaly the interface goes >> up/down after the watchdog error. I did not spot this on my other >> servers yet, but the traffic passing the if_em interface is not that >> much (just normal webtraffic, mail traffic etc). >> >> cheers, >> remko > > LOL, you arent helping, i need to know WHAT CVS deltas work vs dont, > in other words, which delta in the REL_ENG_6 stream broke things?? > If you quantify what 'the update' means that might help me, was this > the 6.2 BETA or what? > > Thanks, > > Jack It wasn't 6.2-BETA it was after the new driver import, around 2 months ago if I remember correctly. It appears to be only on machines with some data traffic. I updated to the 6-STABLE when the new intel driver was imported, after that the problems started , so my best guess is that it has something to do with that driver update. Hope this helps some more (see pciconf for more details about my cards) pciconf: em0@pci0:9:0: class=0x020000 card=0x11138086 chip=0x10768086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet em1@pci0:10:0: class=0x020000 card=0x11138086 chip=0x10768086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */