On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:09:43PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:18:33PM -0400, Michael L. Squires wrote: > > I've just tested 8.4-RC3 using a different Supermicro 1U box with a fresh > > installation of 8.4-RC3. I had problems with the installation, wouldn't > > boot until I used a Windows 98 FDISK to write a master boot record > > (no idea why; this system uses an Adaptec SATA 1.5 6-channel PCI-X > > board with two > > drives in RAID 1). > > > > Using the em0 interface there are no problems with DHCP; when I > > switch to the fxp0 interface the interface starts going up/down in > > the same manner as reported. > > > > The problem appears associated with "world", not with the kernel (running > > the 8.4 kernel with the 8.3 world does not have this problem). > > > > This motherboard is an X5DPL-iGM with 2 Xeon 2.8GHz CPUs and 4 GB of RAM. > > The other unit (an earlier board) has a Serverworks chipset with a single > > Xeon CPU but also with a 100Mbit Intel Pro100 Ethernet port and a 1000Mbit > > Intel Pro1000 Ethernet port. > > > > This unit isn't doing anything useful, so testing isn't a problem. > > Mike, Yong-Hyeon asked you a very important question which you didn't > answer: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-May/073458.html > > If you assign a static IP address, does fxp0 behave properly? > > I'm also re-adding Yong-Hyeon to the CC list here. >
At this point, I am not convinced we have a problem with what will turn out to be 8.4-RELEASE. There have been several attempts to ensure the upgraded version is actually 8.4-RC3 (and again, 'uname -a' is not provided in this email...). I find it very hard to believe that we have exactly one fxp(4) user upgrading to 8.4-*. I'd really like to make sure that this is not an issue that will affect an uncountable number of users, but truthfully, at this point have to consider it a local configuration problem. Glen
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