kern/120791: The Broadcom BCM5703 A2 NIC is running a lot of Ierrs.

[Leon Swanepoel]

>Number:         120791
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       The Broadcom BCM5703 A2 NIC is running a lot of Ierrs.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 18 12:40:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Leon Swanepoel
>Release:        6.3
>Organization:
Mweb
>Environment:
FreeBSD postwall10 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #1: Wed Feb 13 15:06:22 SAST 2008     root at postwall10:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/2650  i386
>Description:
We are running Dell 2650's and the above network card is running an increasing amount of errors. If we disable these on-board cards and replace it with a pci intel card then we recieve no errors. The previously installed os (centos) on this machine also produced no errors. This would therefore elimate a cable, switch or hardware problem and leaves me to believe that we are dealing with an OS or driver issue. We have tried all the available patches and suggestions and nothing has worked.

netstat -ih
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
bge0   1500 <Link#1>      00:0d:56:70:b9:13      38M   27K      42M     0     0
bge0   1500 196.2.42      name.mweb.co.za        37M     -      42M     -     -
bge1*  1500 <Link#2>      00:0d:56:70:b9:15        0     0        0     0     0
lo0   16384 <Link#3>                            1.4M     0     1.4M     0     0
lo0   16384 your-net      localhost.mweb.co     1.4M     -     1.4M     -     -

netstat -m
335/1210/1545 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
275/761/1036/65536 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
275/749 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache)
0/0/0/0 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
0/0/0/0 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
0/0/0/0 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
633K/1824K/2458K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
0/7/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max)
0 requests for sfbufs denied
0 requests for sfbufs delayed
0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
0 calls to protocol drain routines

dev.bge.0.%desc: Broadcom BCM5703 A2, ASIC rev. 0x1002
dev.bge.0.%driver: bge
dev.bge.0.%location: slot=6 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI3.NIC1
dev.bge.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x14e4 device=0x16a7 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x0121 class=0x020000
dev.bge.0.%parent: pci3
dev.bge.0.wake: 0
dev.bge.1.%desc: Broadcom BCM5703 A2, ASIC rev. 0x1002
dev.bge.1.%driver: bge
dev.bge.1.%location: slot=8 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI3.NIC2
dev.bge.1.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x14e4 device=0x16a7 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x0121 class=0x020000
dev.bge.1.%parent: pci3
dev.bge.1.wake: 0
dev.miibus.0.%parent: bge0
dev.miibus.1.%parent: bge1

If there is any other info you need please let me know.

Thank You
Leon
>How-To-Repeat:
Install freebsd 6.2/3 and seven on any systems using the broadcom card range and you will see the problem.
>Fix:
None

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