Hello, I was playing with a a gigabit ethernet network switch I just installed while I found out that my pppoe-firewall/router running OpenBSD 4.7 stopped responding. No packets where going through, I couldn't ping the OpenBSD machine itself, and the serial console was not working either.
The moment before I was trying to figure out how a HP ProCurve Switch behaves on switching loops. Seems like the machine got killed by too many broadcast packets coming in. I tried this with other switches I had laying around here and was able to reproduce the effect with another Netgear gigabit switch (GS108), but not the smaller fast ethernet model (FS105). The HP switch involved was a manageable model named ProCurve 1810G-8. Maybe someone can try to reproduce this as I would not be surprised if the rather low-end hardware running here is to blame for this. All tests were done on the re0 and re1 interfaces. The em0 interface is used for the pppoe connection only. re2 is currently not used. OpenBSD 4.7-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Tue Jul 13 00:40:15 CEST 2010 r...@nibbler.kra.themis.site:/mnt/usbdisk/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.60 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,xTPR real mem = 2137485312 (2038MB) avail mem = 2062290944 (1966MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/29/09, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf9400, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xf0000 (42 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD version "6.00 PG" date 10/29/2009 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP HPET MCFG APIC SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices PEG1(S3) PEX0(S5) PEX1(S5) PEX2(S5) PEX3(S5) PEX4(S5) PEX5(S5) HUB0(S5) UAR1(S5) UAR2(S5) USB0(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) USB3(S3) USBE(S3) AC97(S5) AZAL(S5) PCI0(S5) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 133MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.60 GHz cpu1: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,xTPR ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 2 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEG1) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEX0) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEX1) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 3 (PEX2) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX3) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX4) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX5) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus 4 (HUB0) acpicpu0 at acpi0: PSS acpicpu1 at acpi0: PSS acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 75 degC acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xea00! 0xef000/0x1000! cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1597 MHz: speeds: 1600, 1333, 1067, 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82945GME Host" rev 0x03 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82945GME Video" rev 0x03 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000 inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10) drm0 at inteldrm0 "Intel 82945GM Video" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801GB HD Audio" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10) azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC888 audio0 at azalia0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10) pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 re0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x02: RTL8168C/8111C (0x3c00), apic 2 int 16 (irq 10), address 00:0f:c9:04:fc:c0 rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 17 (irq 5) pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 re1 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x02: RTL8168C/8111C (0x3c00), apic 2 int 17 (irq 5), address 00:0f:c9:04:fc:c1 rgephy1 at re1 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 18 (irq 11) pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 re2 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x02: RTL8168C/8111C (0x3c00), apic 2 int 18 (irq 11), address 00:0f:c9:04:fc:c2 rgephy2 at re2 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 23 (irq 7) uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 19 (irq 15) uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 18 (irq 11) uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10) ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 23 (irq 7) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xe2 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 em0 at pci4 dev 15 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82541GI)" rev 0x05: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10), address 00:03:1d:08:01:62 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801GBM LPC" rev 0x02: PM disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801GB IDE" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ELITE PRO CF CARD 4GB> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3831MB, 7847280 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801GBM SATA" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide1: using apic 2 int 19 (irq 15) for native-PCI interrupt ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 19 (irq 15) iic0 at ichiic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-5300CL5 SO-DIMM usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: W83627DHG rev 0x23 lm1 at wbsio0 port 0x290/8: W83627DHG npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support vscsi0 at root scsibus0 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b WARNING: / was not properly unmounted pppoe: unknown code (0x00d3) session = 0x0464