troubles with ng_fec on -current

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 3 07:05:05 PST 2005


On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:36:15PM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:43:49 -0800
> John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> > The only thing is that it could be that you aren't setting the
> > ethernet hardware address on the four cards all to the same address...
> >  The
> > reason box1 gets through is that it is aliased to the arp address that
> > maps to one of the cards.. the reason the other boxes don't go through
> > is that the card isn't seeing the correct mac address to pass it's
> > filter...
> > 
> > do something like:
> > for i in 1 2 3; do ifconfig ste$i `ifconfig ste0 | grep ether`; done
> > 
> > and see if that fixes your issue...
> 
> thanks for your quick reply John-Mark.
> 
> Right now I don't have access to the setup, but I remember that the
> MAC addresses of the 4 ports are the same once ng_fec is created...
> Anyway, I will surely check this tomorrow. thanks again.
> 
What John-Mark suggests will likely fix your problem, but don't
do that.  Instead, please see my other reply in this thread that
includes a fix to ng_fec.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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