Hi I noticed something that confuses me. During system startup and the rc.d/ sequence, I get the following message: bge0: link state changed to DOWN To diagnose this, I put an 'ifconfig bge0' at the beginning of the first rc.d script that is executed, and indeed that triggered the message. During normal startup, the message appears during interface configuration, but the link goes then back up almost immediately, so this this this has no negative impact on startup. The short time it takes from going DOWN and then back UP has the possibility to confuse rc.d/ scripts that try to check whether an interface has a carrier by looking at the output of ifconfig bge0. Is what I described above normal? Does it happen with other drivers too? Or did I find a bug? I'll try to check with -current as soon as I can install it on this machine. I am using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #15: Tue Jan 31 21:25:42 CET 2006 Thanks, Tobias
On Sun, 2006-Feb-05 19:29:50 +0100, Tobias Roth wrote:>bge0: link state changed to DOWNAnd "bge0: link state changed to UP" in the messages file.>Is what I described above normal?It seems normal for bge(4).> Does it happen with other drivers too?I don't recall seeing it on any other drivers.> I'll try to check with -current as soon as >I can install it on this machine.Same thing happens on -current/amd64 using a bge0: <Broadcom BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x3003>>I am using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #15: Tue Jan 31 21:25:42 CET 2006You might like to mention what NIC you are using. -- Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:29:50 +0100 Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> wrote:> Is what I described above normal? Does it happen with other drivers > too? Or did I find a bug? I'll try to check with -current as soon asI don't know if it is normal. FWIW, I see something like it on a box with nve0 interface: root@kg-fil# uname -a FreeBSD kg-fil.kg4.no 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Feb 5 15:37:51 CET 2006 root@kg-fil.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FIL60 amd64 root@kg-fil# dmesg | grep nve nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xec00-0xec07 mem 0xf5003000-0xf5003fff irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0 nve0: Ethernet address 00:14:85:8a:aa:64 miibus1: <MII bus> on nve0 nve0: Ethernet address: 00:14:85:8a:aa:64 nve0: device timeout (1) nve0: link state changed to DOWN nve0: link state changed to UP -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
>On Sun, 2006-Feb-05 19:29:50 +0100, Tobias Roth wrote:>>bge0: link state changed to DOWN >And "bge0: link state changed to UP" in the messages file. >>Is what I described above normal? >It seems normal for bge(4). >> Does it happen with other drivers too? >I don't recall seeing it on any other drivers. >> I'll try to check with -current as soon as >>I can install it on this machine. >Same thing happens on -current/amd64 using a >bge0: <Broadcom BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x3003> >>I am using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #15: Tue Jan 31 21:25:42 CET 2006 >You might like to mention what NIC you are using. >-- >Peter Jeremy I actually had the exact same behaviour using xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL>, but it happened under 5-Stable, I've never seen it under 6-Stable. Never had a problem because of it, though. -- Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner lopisaur@gmail.com lopisaur@acelerate.com (+591-705)98290 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20060206/cba196f5/attachment.bin