LOL, sorry to disappoint you but I'm not responsible for fxp, Intel didn't write it, and i've never touched it :) Now that wouldnt mean that I can't look at it, but I am very busy right now, so unless there's no alternative I'd rather not.
Jack On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:46:25AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Whilst doing some QA work on XORP on my desktop, which has fxp0 and >> msk0, fxp0 got totally hosed. >> I was running PIM-SM and IGMPv2 router-mode on the box at the time. >> >> I wonder if this is related to the problems with fxp multicast >> transmission I saw back in April. >> I'm a bit concerned about this as fxp is still a very widespread and >> useful network chip. >> >> I am running 7.0-RELEASE-p4/amd64. >> sysctls for dev.fxp.0 are set to their default values. >> >> I'm not expert on the fxp driver internals, but perhaps someone else has >> seen this kind of problem before. Multicast-promiscuous mode (aka >> ALLMULTI) was enabled on the interface. I know some NICs have problems >> with this, or don't even support it. >> >> The errors look like this: >> fxp0: SCB timeout: 0x10 0x0 0x80 0x0 >> fxp0: SCB timeout: 0x10 0x0 0x80 0x0 >> fxp0: DMA timeout >> ... repeated ... >> >> Attempted workarounds which don't work to un-wedge the chip: >> Reload the fxp0 microcode with "ifconfig fxp0 link0" >> Forcibly unloading the kernel module and reloading it >> Unpatching and repatching at the switch (a cheap 10/100 one) >> Enabling and disabling promiscuous mode >> Twiddling dev.fxp.0.noflow >> >> The link status looks fine, but the card will not send or receive traffic. >> A warm reboot was enough to get things back up again. >> >> regards, >> BMS > > Adding Jack Vogel, who's responsible for fxp(4). > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
