Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:13:51 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Curiously unable to access network - bce, 7.2-RELEASE on a HP blade   server
Message-ID:  <hdm6tv$a03$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <hdm4o6$394$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <hdm4o6$394$1@ger.gmane.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I forgot to attach hardware details:

bce0: HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (B2) ASIC 
0x57081021 Rev B2 B/C 0x04040105 Flags 2.5G

Additional data point: I cannot reconfigure the card to 100 Mbit 
operation (currently in 1000baseSX autoselect, full-duplex).

Ivan Voras wrote:
> The symptoms are:
> 
>     * The device (bce0, bce1) comes up, is visible in ifconfig, can be 
> configured, is UP and RUNNING, everything looks fine
>     * Apparently, it simply doesn't work - no ping responses, TCP, nothing
>     * But tcpdump shows that the NIC apparently does receive multicast 
> router announcements, and some broadcast ARP traffic; only unicast seems 
> to be affected.
>     * Running "netstat 1" shows that apparently there are some packets 
> received - once a second or so, and the "err" counters are 0.
>     * Digging further, the dev.bce.0.stat_IfinFramesL2FilterDiscards 
> contains an increasing number, currently arround 57000 and the 
> dev.bce.0.stat_IfHCInBadOctets also contains an increasing number, 
> currently around 450,000, while ...InOctets is around 30,000 and 
> ...OutBadOctets is 0.
> 
>  From the sysctls it looks like maybe it's discarding valid input 
> packets. I've tried disabling rxcsum, txcsum and TSO without effect.
> 
> I cannot upgrade or install 8.0 because newusb has some problems with 
> the hardware.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
> 




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?hdm6tv$a03$1>