Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:05:57 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Thomas Lotterer <thomas+freebsd@lotterer.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suspect bug in vge(4) Message-ID: <20090611130557.GB68519@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <4A30FD94.4030409@lotterer.net> References: <4A2DA8D9.2030300@lotterer.net> <20090610024959.GD63941@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr> <4A2FF8E3.4060501@lotterer.net> <20090611002923.GA68519@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr> <4A30FD94.4030409@lotterer.net>
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 02:50:28PM +0200, Thomas Lotterer wrote: > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:18:11PM +0200, Thomas Lotterer wrote: > >>Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > >>>http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/vge/if_vge.c > >>>http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/vge/if_vgereg.h > >>>http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/vge/if_vgevar.h > >>> > >>These files contain a CVS Id dating them 2007-11-22 while CURRENT has > >>2009-05-30. > > > >You can ignore the date. > > > I tried these driver files. > > From a user/admin perspective, they do not work at all. No Network > link, no traffic at all. > Sorry, the WIP version wasn't tested on real hardware. :-( > From a developers perspective, things look promising: > > vge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC> > ether 00:40:63:xx:xx:xx > inet [...] > media: Ethernet autoselect > > New WOL options are a proof the new driver is loaded. It detects the NIC > and reads the correct Ethernet MAC address. The media indicator shows > what's reality - no link. > > In /var/log/messages I found continuously repeating patterns of > > vge0: link state changed to UP > vge0: watchdog timeout > vge0: unable to stop Rx/Tx MAC(0x09)! > vge0: soft reset timed out > vge0: link state changed to DOWN > Perhaps there is a bug in Tx path, not sure where it is. > Attempting to manually bring the interface down and back up did not > change anything. In fact, it seems to me that the command did not make > it to the hardware. Usually, the link indicators on the NIC and switch > cycle off/on but this time no flickering at all. Could you show me dmesg output(only vge(4) related one)?
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