On Friday 31 August 2007 21:55, Tobias Ernst wrote: > Hi, > > I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a > driver/hardware issue. > > As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: > > bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard > bge2, bge3: BCM5704, PCIX card > bge4, bge5: BCM5704, PCIX card > > I have now greatly simplified the test case: Only connect any two > interfaces with the same number with a crosslink cable or an otherwise > unused switch. Assign two IP addresses from within the same subnet. > E.g., make bge0 on machine #1 10.0.0.1 and bge0 on machine #2 10.0.0.2. > Don't connect anything else. > > I can instantly ping the other machine after booting up when using bge0, > bge1 or bge2 on both machines. > > I cannot initially ping the other machine when using bge3, bge4 or bge5. > In this case, I first have to put one of the interfaces into > promiscuous mode, wait for the ping to come through, then disable > promiscuous mode. > > Incidentally, the working interfaces all sit on IRQ3, while the other > three sit on IRQ7, IRQ11 and IRQ5, respectively. > > Where do I take this from here? I need at least four interfaces working > for the configuration I need to implement. I could do away with the > other two, but four is the minimum I need. > > Incidentally, another option to "wake up" the ping, apart from setting > and unsetting promiscous modem, is to connect any Windows machine to the > same switch. As soon as a Windows machine is present on the switch, the > ping between the two FreeBSD machines works right out from the start. > > This looks like a minor issue at first glance, because everything seems > to be normal once the ping is set going, and I could just write a script > that enables promiscuous mode on startup for a certain amount of time, > and there will always be Windows boxes on the network anyway. However, I > am now wary that there might be other hidden bugs or hardware problems, > and I have no use for those in a production machine ... >
If you take a look here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c you will see some problems with some chipsets regarding auto negotiation. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94833 How all these apply to your case? Did you try "down-ing" and "up-ing" the interfaces? Did you try without forcing a link speed(check ifconfig -m) Just wild guesses... HTH, Nikos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
