Re: Interesting Boot failure on HEAD with a large number of IGB nics

2015-07-22 Thread Gary Palmer
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 02:20:06PM -0400, Mark Saad wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Garrett Cooper > wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:14, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > I'm no expert, but you may want to try setting > > > > > > hw.igb.num_queues=1 > > > > > > and may

Re: Interesting Boot failure on HEAD with a large number of IGB nics

2015-07-22 Thread Mark Saad
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:14, Gary Palmer wrote: > > ... > > > I'm no expert, but you may want to try setting > > > > hw.igb.num_queues=1 > > > > and maybe > > > > hw.ixgbe.num_queues=1 > > > > in the boot loader and trying that. > > Ther

Re: Interesting Boot failure on HEAD with a large number of IGB nics

2015-07-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
> On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:14, Gary Palmer wrote: ... > I'm no expert, but you may want to try setting > > hw.igb.num_queues=1 > > and maybe > > hw.ixgbe.num_queues=1 > > in the boot loader and trying that. There was another discussion that took place around June on current that might be he

Re: Interesting Boot failure on HEAD with a large number of IGB nics

2015-07-22 Thread Gary Palmer
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:11:09PM -0400, Mark Saad wrote: > All > I am wondering if anyone has run into this issue before , and if there is > a fix. > I have a Scalable Informatics siRouter with 24 Intel I350 igb nics and 8 > intel 82599ES ixgbe/ix nic . The SiRouter is a Supe

Interesting Boot failure on HEAD with a large number of IGB nics

2015-07-22 Thread Mark Saad
All I am wondering if anyone has run into this issue before , and if there is a fix. I have a Scalable Informatics siRouter with 24 Intel I350 igb nics and 8 intel 82599ES ixgbe/ix nic . The SiRouter is a Supermicro X9DRX+-F with a bunch of intel nics. On Head I run into a boot panic out of the

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs *SOLVED*

2011-04-13 Thread Denny Schierz
Hi Dan, Am Dienstag, den 12.04.2011, 17:42 -0500 schrieb Dan Nelson: > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/hardware/module/guide/03instal.html#wpxref23495 you saved our week :-) That was it. My Cisco administrator take a closer look and found out, that both NICs

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-12 Thread Dan Nelson
ning active-passive instead of > > > > active-active ... just a thought... > > > > > > 150% sure. I used two dedicated NICs WITHOUT any loadbalancing. The sum > > > has to be more than 112MB/s. > > > > it must me the network. I tested two crossov

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-12 Thread Andrew Thompson
target IPs. Every IP has his own 1Gb/s network card. > On the end, two clients had a connection to IP 1 and the second two to > IP 2. > > First we used the two onboard NICs and then, one onboard and one > external NIC, but without success. We never get more then 112MB/s > > All

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
) and > two target IPs. Every IP has his own 1Gb/s network card. > On the end, two clients had a connection to IP 1 and the second two to > IP 2. > > First we used the two onboard NICs and then, one onboard and one > external NIC, but without success. We never get more then 112M

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-12 Thread Dan Nelson
t a thought... > > > > 150% sure. I used two dedicated NICs WITHOUT any loadbalancing. The sum > > has to be more than 112MB/s. > > it must me the network. I tested two crossover connections and I've got > 220MB/s :-) Check to see whether your switch ports are ov

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-12 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Montag, den 11.04.2011, 21:52 +0200 schrieb Denny Schierz: > hi, > > Am 11.04.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: > > > Are you certain you are not somehow running active-passive instead of > > active-active ... > > just a thought... > > 150% sure. I

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 11.04.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: > Are you certain you are not somehow running active-passive instead of > active-active ... > just a thought... 150% sure. I used two dedicated NICs WITHOUT any loadbalancing. The sum has to be more than 112MB/s. cu denny ps. I

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Tim Daneliuk
in some of those. Also you might simply be > > that was the reason, why we disabled the loadbalancer and tested with plain > NICs. > >> reaching the limits of your firewall box too you haven't mentioned any >> of it's specs, nor do you seem to have run top wh

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
abled the loadbalancer and tested with plain NICs. > reaching the limits of your firewall box too you haven't mentioned any > of it's specs, nor do you seem to have run top while running the iperf > tests. The clients (who running iperf -c ) had a load near zero, they are pow

Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
had a connection to IP 1 and the second two to IP 2. First we used the two onboard NICs and then, one onboard and one external NIC, but without success. We never get more then 112MB/s All are connected through a Cisco Catalyst WS-X4515. The mainboard is a Intel S3420GP. any suggestion? cu denny

Possible crashing bug in RELENG_8 for Realtek NICs

2010-04-11 Thread Waldo Nell
I have possibly found a bug in FreeBSD RELENG_8 where the system would randomly grind to a halt between 1 hour and 8 hours uptime. This did not occur in 7.2 on the same hardware. I see lots of re0: watchdog timeout messages on the console and then suddenly everything freezes - the keybaord inp

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-12-11 Thread Andre Albsmeier
on pci0 > > pci7: on pcib7 > > em5: port 0xdc00-0xdc1f mem > > 0xfafe-0xfaff,0xfafdc000-0xfafd irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci7 > > > > em5: Using MSIX interrupts > > em5: [ITHREAD] > > em5: [ITHREAD] > > em5: [ITHREAD] > > em5: Etherne

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-19 Thread Jack Vogel
pcib7 > em5: port 0xdc00-0xdc1f mem > 0xfafe-0xfaff,0xfafdc000-0xfafd irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci7 > > em5: Using MSIX interrupts > em5: [ITHREAD] > em5: [ITHREAD] > em5: [ITHREAD] > em5: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:d6:ef:13 > > So the problem is _not_ there under

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
pci7 em5: Using MSIX interrupts em5: [ITHREAD] em5: [ITHREAD] em5: [ITHREAD] em5: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:d6:ef:13 So the problem is _not_ there under RELENG_8. I also tested the 2 PCIe nics to make sure they are still working, and they are. Full dmesg below opyright (c) 1992-2009 The

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
ke Best regards, Jack On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Mike Tancsa <<mailto:m...@sentex.net>m...@sentex.net> wrote: On two Intel chipset Supermicro boards (X8STi and X8STE-0) using the onboard em nics (dmesg info below), I seem to have run into an issue where if I boot th

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-18 Thread Jack Vogel
r try this. Best regards, Jack On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > On two Intel chipset Supermicro boards (X8STi and X8STE-0) using the > onboard em nics (dmesg info below), I seem to have run into an issue where > if I boot the box up with the cables unplugged,

bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
On two Intel chipset Supermicro boards (X8STi and X8STE-0) using the onboard em nics (dmesg info below), I seem to have run into an issue where if I boot the box up with the cables unplugged, I cannot get the NICS to properly work post boot up. This is quite repeatable for me. So at boot

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-18 Thread Nick Withers
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 11:52 +, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Nick Withers wrote: > > >> I'll need to think a bit about a proper fix for this, but you'll find the > >> problem likely goes away if you eliminate all uid/gid/jail rules from your > >> firewall. You could also tweak

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Nick Withers wrote: I'll need to think a bit about a proper fix for this, but you'll find the problem likely goes away if you eliminate all uid/gid/jail rules from your firewall. You could also tweak the syncache logic not to use a retransmit timer, which might slightly

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-14 Thread Nick Withers
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 18:01 +, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Nick Withers wrote: > > > Right, here we go! > ... > > Turns out that the problem is a lock cycle triggered by the syncache calling, > indirectly, the firewall during output, and the firewall trying to look up > the

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-14 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Nick Withers wrote: Right, here we go! ... Turns out that the problem is a lock cycle triggered by the syncache calling, indirectly, the firewall during output, and the firewall trying to look up the connection for the packet. Thread one: Tracing PID 31 tid 100030 t

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-14 Thread Nick Withers
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 09:49 +, Robert Watson wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > > > Sounds like a lock leak -- if you're running INVARIANTS, then "show allocks" > should read WITNESS > > and "show allchains" would be usef

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-13 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:56:24 +1100 Nick Withers wrote: > I'm sorry to ask what is probably a very simple question, but is there > somewhere I should look to get clues on debugging from a manually > generated dump? I tried "panic" after manually envoking the kernel > debugger but proved highly inep

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-13 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Nick Withers wrote: Sorry for the original double-post, by the way, not quite sure how that happened... I can reproduce this problem relatively easily, by the way (every 3 days, on average). I meant to say this before, too, but it seems to happen a lot more often on the

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-13 Thread Nick Withers
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 09:37 +, Robert Watson wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Nick Withers wrote: > > > I recently installed my first amd64 system (currently running RELENG_7 from > > 2009-03-11) to replace an aged ppc box and have been having dramas with the > > network locking up. > > > > Bre

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-13 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Robert Watson wrote: Sounds like a lock leak -- if you're running INVARIANTS, then "show allocks" should read WITNESS and "show allchains" would be useful. I've had a report of a TCP lock leak possibly in tcp_input(),

Re: NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-13 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Nick Withers wrote: I recently installed my first amd64 system (currently running RELENG_7 from 2009-03-11) to replace an aged ppc box and have been having dramas with the network locking up. Breaking into the debugger manually and ps-ing shows the network card (e.g., "

NICs locking up, "*tcp_sc_h"

2009-03-12 Thread Nick Withers
Hello all, I recently installed my first amd64 system (currently running RELENG_7 from 2009-03-11) to replace an aged ppc box and have been having dramas with the network locking up. Breaking into the debugger manually and ps-ing shows the network card (e.g., "[irq20: fxp0+]") in state "LL" in "

Re: Nexcom 1086 - Marvell Chipsets - Nics show in dmesg but do not show up in ifconfig

2007-01-16 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:22:49PM -0500, Scott Ullrich wrote: > Nevermind, I found > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-January/009543.html > > Now the nics are working. Thanks anyways! > CURRENT has msk(4) for your NIC. If you have a chance to run CURR

Re: Nexcom 1086 - Marvell Chipsets - Nics show in dmesg but do not show up in ifconfig

2007-01-16 Thread Scott Ullrich
Nevermind, I found http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-January/009543.html Now the nics are working. Thanks anyways! Scott On 1/16/07, Scott Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am currently working with a Nexcom 1086 that features 2 Marvell chipsets with 8

Nexcom 1086 - Marvell Chipsets - Nics show in dmesg but do not show up in ifconfig

2007-01-16 Thread Scott Ullrich
Hello, I am currently working with a Nexcom 1086 that features 2 Marvell chipsets with 8 total nics. This device is slated to become a FreeBSD/pfSense router. During probing, all nics show up okay sk0-sk3 and skc-0-3 but the skc nics do not show up in ifconfig. Is there something that I am

Re: Dell PE 1950 bce NICs revisited

2006-12-02 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:33, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 10:43, Scott Long wrote: > > Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > I've been using 6.1-R on a PE1950 for some time now. The stock > > > bce driver doesn't work at all. I dug up a driver off the web > > > (0.9.6) that wor

Re: Dell PE 1950 bce NICs revisited

2006-11-29 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 10:43, Scott Long wrote: > Josh Paetzel wrote: > > I've been using 6.1-R on a PE1950 for some time now. The stock > > bce driver doesn't work at all. I dug up a driver off the web > > (0.9.6) that worked fine with my workload (basically all TCP) but > > in talking to

Re: Dell PE 1950 bce NICs revisited

2006-11-29 Thread Scott Long
Josh Paetzel wrote: I've been using 6.1-R on a PE1950 for some time now. The stock bce driver doesn't work at all. I dug up a driver off the web (0.9.6) that worked fine with my workload (basically all TCP) but in talking to Scott I discovered that UDP traffic was a problem for this driver.

Dell PE 1950 bce NICs revisited

2006-11-29 Thread Josh Paetzel
I've been using 6.1-R on a PE1950 for some time now. The stock bce driver doesn't work at all. I dug up a driver off the web (0.9.6) that worked fine with my workload (basically all TCP) but in talking to Scott I discovered that UDP traffic was a problem for this driver. Some time ago I upgr

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Thomas Franck
> Sex, 2006-02-17 às 15:43 +0100, Thomas Franck escreveu: > > > Unless you take special measures (ng_fec?), one does not > > > normally connect two NICs on one machine to the same collision > > > domain. > > > > Hmm.. don't really see a problem with

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Miguel Ramos
Sex, 2006-02-17 às 15:43 +0100, Thomas Franck escreveu: > > Unless you take special measures (ng_fec?), one does not > > normally connect two NICs on one machine to the same collision > > domain. > > Hmm.. don't really see a problem with that.. two NICs with &g

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Thomas Franck
saying it should be.. It's not bad behaviour at all.. the Kernel is just concerned about the weird broadcasts that are on the net.. If I got that right - sorry for the noise and thanks for the knowledge... :) > Unless you take special measures (ng_fec?), one does not > normal

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
{FreeBSD} > | | > [sw1] [sw2] > | | > [switch3] >| | | >| | {me} >| > [router] > > the switch3 will be VLAN'ed again and properly connected once > the firewall is back..) Unless you take special measures (ng_fec?), one does not normally connect two NIC

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Thomas Franck
haviour.. :) > > > > I've going through the archives & web but the threads I found > > didn't fit my case.. :( > > The first two hits from Google were informative, but this is what > you want: the ones I found where about routing or two NICs on the same subn

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Thomas Franck wrote: [ ... ] > It doesn't seem to affect the function of the server, but it's > mighty irritating and blows up the logs a lot... plus, I don't > think it's supposed to show this behaviour.. :) > > I've going through the archives & web but the threads I found > didn't fit my case

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Steven Hartland
Sounds like u have two netcards plugged into the same network or some other sort of network loop. Steve - Original Message - From: "Thomas Franck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How can an arp reply be received by the wrong interface, though? Isn't the request broadcast and the reply MAC add

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Thomas Franck
On 17 Feb 2006 at 12:26, Dominic Marks wrote: > Tried these sysctls? > > net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface > net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements > net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_permanent_modify I set this in sysctl.conf now and did a reboot.. net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface = 0 an

2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Thomas Franck
Hi there...! I'm a long-time reader, but this is my first post.. :) I set up our old server (an Acer Altos 11000) with Release 6.0 two days ago (cvsup'ed and installed new world and custom kernel (see below)) and I keep getting a huge amounts of these message: - Feb 17 12:39:46 scorpio ker

[BUG REPORT] Off by one error in initializing unit number forPCCARD NICs in both recent 4.8-STABLE and 5.1-RELEASE

2003-08-01 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
Because of the nature of this bug, I have no network access on my FreeBSD machine and so I'm filing this off my wife's laptop. I can't send-pr in any other manner. Would someone please post this SYSTEM IBM 380XD Thinkpad Laptop running either a recent (post-May) 4.8-STABLE or 5.1-RELEASE (off th

Re: Problem with dc-nics 10,11

2003-08-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Holger Kipp writes: | I have a little problem with dc10, dc11. I use three quad dc cards, | so far from dc0 up to dc8 with no problems. | | All (dc0 to dc11) are displayed correctly with pciconf and with ifconfig. | The trouble is with dc10 and dc11 that they don't send any data out and | also don

Problem with dc-nics 10,11

2003-08-01 Thread Holger Kipp
Hi, I have a little problem with dc10, dc11. I use three quad dc cards, so far from dc0 up to dc8 with no problems. All (dc0 to dc11) are displayed correctly with pciconf and with ifconfig. The trouble is with dc10 and dc11 that they don't send any data out and also don't react to arp requests et

HEADS UP: Broken if_dc NICs with MACs like 08:08[...] or 00:00[...]

2003-02-07 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi all, Many if_dc cards are still broken in RELENG_4. Can you please try this diff if you own such a broken card ? If you have a Conexant LANfinity MiniPCI 10/100BaseTX card, I'd like to have feedback if full duplex mode works now too. Thank you very much for your tests. I'd like to see all th

IBM x335 Broadcom BCM5703 NICs not detected by 4.7-R

2003-02-04 Thread Mike Lambert
adcom Corporation' device = 'BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet' class= network subclass = ethernet I fiddled with BIOS settings (no "PnP OS" option) and tried a stripped down kernel with no success. Installing a 3c905 PCI card works fine, but I would pref

Two NICs to integrate into the -STABLE source tree

2001-09-26 Thread Brad Laue
Just wondering at the status of two network cards I've run across to date, and the status of whether patches are being looked over. First is the D-Link DFE-538TX, which as yet is not handled natively in 4.4-STABLE - a patch, which works well on two of my systems, here: http://www.brad-x.com/card

RE: lnc0 and AT1500 NICs

2000-11-20 Thread Thierry . Herbelot
cc: Subject: RE: lnc0 and AT1500 NICs i am using the installation floppies from 4.1.1-RELEASE. Should i get something newer? -

Re: NICs

1999-10-11 Thread Mike Pontillo
If it is NE2000 compatible, it should work with Linux or FreeBSD no problem. In Linux, you want to use the "ne" kernel module if it is an ISA card, or the "ne2k-pci" module if it is a PCI card. Slackware comes with these modules and all you should have to do is run "modprobe ". The

Re: NICs

1999-10-11 Thread Kris Kirby
Iain Templeton wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Jimmy Zongos wrote: > > > i got a computer with a sn2000 nic card and it says its ne2000 > > compatible but when i try to run it in slackware it doesnt work and i > > was wondering if it would work in freebsd 3.3-stable please email me > > if it can

Re: NICs

1999-10-11 Thread Scott Sewall
  Use the setup utility shipped with the NIC to disable plug-n-play and set the I/O and IRQ manually. Make sure FreeBSD is configured the to match. I've used this NIC with FreeBSD 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, and 3.2. -- Scott Jimmy Zongos wrote: i got a computer with a sn2000 nic card and it says its ne2000