Oh, hmmm, ok I'll look into that code. Thanks Barney. Jack
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Barney Cordoba <barney_cord...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > --- On Wed, 8/5/09, David Christensen <davi...@broadcom.com> wrote: > > > From: David Christensen <davi...@broadcom.com> > > Subject: RE: em(4): sending ARP regardless of NOARP flag > > To: "Jack Vogel" <jfvo...@gmail.com>, "Julian Elischer" < > jul...@elischer.org> > > Cc: "Jack F Vogel" <j...@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" < > freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "d...@delphij.net" <d...@delphij.net> > > Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 3:54 PM > > > >> I don't see how arping > > or not can be a driver problem, the driver > > > >> just sends packets queued by the stack, there > > exists NO > > > mechanism to > > > >> communicate that kind of thing down into the > > driver, -arp is > > > >> something that must be negotiated in the > > stack somewhere, > > > as for it > > > >> working with broadcom... > > > >> <shrugs> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > except for the system management stuff. > > > > On the bce(9) driver does it display the "MFW" flag during > > driver load? That would indicate whether NC-SI style > > management > > firmware is running which would be unexpected on a NIC > > card. > > If the Intel LOM is connected to a baseboard management > > controller > > or service processor then the BMC or SP are likely > > generating > > the ARP. What's the source MAC address of the > > ARP? Does it > > match the LOM's MAC address or the MAC address of any BMC > > or SP? > > The latter would generally be printed on a tag on the > > system or > > perhaps in a BMC setup screen visible during POST. > > The em driver calls arp_ifinit() when an address is set which causes > an ARP to go out when a new address is set. It seems that > the ARP logic should know not to send it out, but you could certainly > add a check in if_em to avoid calling that. It seems that Bill Paul > cloned drivers don't use such logic so the broadcoms don't have it. > > Barney > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
