freebsd stable - Mar 2013 - bce0: bce_pulse(): Warning: bootcode thinks driver is absent! (bc_state = 0x00004006)

Hi ?

   Running a kernel updated on the 24th, I just experienced a total hang of the
ethernet ? the funny thing is that when I went to the remote console, the
network suddenly came up on its own, after being down for about 2 hours ...

I had originally thought it had to do with VirtualBox, since up until now, the
only boxes I'd see exhibiting this were running a VirtualBox VPS, but this
server doesn't have one running ?

Has anyone seem this before?  

The odd thing is that the bce driver code hasn't been modified since Nov
17th, 2012, according to the FBSDID tag in if_bce.c ? so its not a change to the
driver itself ?

I was having some odd issues with another server that has VirtualBox, where
similar would happen ? I reverted back to code around Feb 5th, and it seemed to
have gone away ? am trying to see if I can narrow it down to a specific date,
but maybe the error message has more meaning for someone else ? ?

Thx ?

Hi Marc,

My DELL PE2950 was 9.1-STABLE r246126M which is definitely earlier
than Feb 5th, I use it as VirtualBox host (4.2.6)

Yesterday it ran into simular problem like you described, but didn't
get any lucky, ping is dead.

Then I update it to r247836, it happened again today.

There's two warning message after boot:

bce1: promiscuous mode enabled
bce0: promiscuous mode enabled
bce0: bce_pulse(): Warning: bootcode thinks driver is absent!
(bc_state = 0x00004006)
bce1: bce_pulse(): Warning: bootcode thinks driver is absent!
(bc_state = 0x00004006)

I can't turn promiscuous mode off by type "ifconfig bce0
-promisc".

Any comment are appreciated, thanks.


Best regards,
Jiansong


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Marc Fournier <freebsd at hub.org>
wrote:
>
> Hi ?
>
>    Running a kernel updated on the 24th, I just experienced a total hang of
the ethernet ? the funny thing is that when I went to the remote console, the
network suddenly came up on its own, after being down for about 2 hours ...
>
> I had originally thought it had to do with VirtualBox, since up until now,
the only boxes I'd see exhibiting this were running a VirtualBox VPS, but
this server doesn't have one running ?
>
> Has anyone seem this before?
>
> The odd thing is that the bce driver code hasn't been modified since
Nov 17th, 2012, according to the FBSDID tag in if_bce.c ? so its not a change to
the driver itself ?
>
> I was having some odd issues with another server that has VirtualBox, where
similar would happen ? I reverted back to code around Feb 5th, and it seemed to
have gone away ? am trying to see if I can narrow it down to a specific date,
but maybe the error message has more meaning for someone else ? ?
>
> Thx ?
>
>
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