Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller

[Mike Tancsa]

At 12:22 PM 7/7/2010, Jack Vogel wrote:
>Interesting, didn't know any vendor had combined PCH and 82574 on 
>one board, yes, they are
>completely different, as you can see the one only supports MSI, its 
>a client NIC.

Its one of the lesser known vendors, Intel ;-) Its a S3420GPLC

<http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Motherboards/S3420GP/S3420GP-specifications.htm>http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Motherboards/S3420GP/S3420GP-specifications.htm 


         ---Mike





>I would agree with Mike, disable anything having to do with IPMI if 
>it exists and see if that
>helps. Also you did not comment on the flow control setting, how 
>about turning that on?
>
>Jack
>
>
>On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Mike Tancsa 
><<mailto:mike at sentex.net>mike at sentex.net> wrote:
>At 06:03 AM 7/7/2010, Shtorm wrote:
>
> > Yow, 30 vlans, but only em1 is using vlans not em0?
> >
> > Is only em1 having watchdogs? I noticed you appear to
> > have flow control off, maybe turning it on would help.
> >
> > I would like to see the log messages from the watchdogs.
> > Jack
>
>Yes, em0 - plain untagged traffic to border router, em1 - tagged - one
>vlan per 200-300 pppoe clients. Anyway, I saw watchdogs on em0 too,
>there is no logs for it because remote syslog server connected via em0
>and it looses messages during card reset, will enable local logs to get
>some info.
>
>
>I only have one board that has a pair of these NICs, but I noticed 
>that in the BIOS, there is an option to enable or disable the Option 
>ROM to do things like WOL, some sort of IPMI and other functions / 
>features I am not familiar with and dont use.
>
>
>|                                                    |ROM for the 
>onboard      |
>|  Maximize Memory below   [Disabled]                |network 
>controllers.     |
>|  Memory Mapped I/O abo   [Disabled]                |Warning: If 
>[Disabled]   |
>|  Onboard Video           [Enabled]                 |is selected, 
>NIC2 can    |
>|  Dual Monitor Video      [Disabled]                |not be used to 
>boot or   |
>|  Onboard NIC1 ROM        [Enabled]                 |wake the 
>system.         |
>|  Onboard NIC2 
>ROM        [Enabled]                 |                         |
>|  Onboard NIC iSCSI 
>ROM   [Disabled]                |                         |
>|                                                    |          |
>|  NIC1 MAC Address        001517C84B98              |><     Select 
>Screen     |
>|  NIC2 MAC Address        001517C84B99              |^v     Select 
>Item       |
>|                                                    |+/-    Change 
>Value      |
>
>If you have such features, perhaps try disabling them in the BIOS ?
>
>On mine, the two nics dont come up the same... Not sure if their 
>capabilities are the same even ?
>
>em2 at pci0:0:25:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x34ec8086 
>chip=0x10ef8086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>    class      = network
>    subclass   = ethernet
>    cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
>    cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
>    cap 13[e0] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP
>
>
>em3 at pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086 
>rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>
>    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>    device     = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
>    class      = network
>    subclass   = ethernet
>    cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
>    cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
>    cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
>    cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
>
>em2: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.0.5> port 0x3040-0x305f 
>mem 0xb1b00000-0xb1b1ffff,0xb1b25000-0xb1b25fff irq 16 at device 25.0 on pci0
>em2: Using MSI interrupt
>em2: [FILTER]
>em2: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:c8:4b:99
>
>em3: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.0.5> port 0x1000-0x101f 
>mem 0xb1900000-0xb191ffff,0xb1920000-0xb1923fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
>em3: Using MSI interrupt
>em3: [FILTER]
>em3: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:c8:4b:98
>
>
>        ---Mike
>
>
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