re0 not working at boot on -CURRENT

Fri Jul 19 01:58:09 UTC 2013

>> On 07/10/13 19:47, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>> On 07/10/13 09:04, Yonghyeon PYUN wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:28:29PM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a PC with an integrate re ethernet interface, pciconf identifies
>>>>> it like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> re0 at pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x11c01734 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x07
>>>>> hdr=0x00
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running FreeBSD current r252261.
>>>>>
>>>>> As stated in the subject after boot the interface does not work
>>>>> correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using tcpdump on another host I noticed that packets (ICMP echo requests
>>>>> for example) do get sent, and replies generated by the other host, but
>>>>> the kernel does not seem to see them. Except that every now and then
>>>>> some packet does get to the system.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm seeing packet 7, 27, 47, 66, 86, 106, 125, 144, 164, 183 and so on
>>>>> from a ping which has been running for some time. Just about one every
>>>>> twenty. Some pattern is showing up.
>>>>>
>>>>> this is the output of ifconfig re0 after boot:
>>>>>
>>>>> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>>>>> 1500
>>>>>
>>>>> options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
>>>>>
>>>>>          ether 00:19:99:f8:d3:0b
>>>>>          inet 172.24.42.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.24.42.255
>>>>>          inet6 fe80::219:99ff:fef8:d30b%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>>>>>          nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>>>          media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>>>>>          status: active
>>>>>
>>>>> If I just touch any interface flag with ifconfig, anyone, tso, -txcsum
>>>>> -rxcsum, it starts working flawlessly. It keeps working also if I
>>>>> perform the opposite operation with ifconfig afterwards, so it is not
>>>>> the flag itself fixing it.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is an ifconfig after performing this exercise(it's the same, since
>>>>> I disabled txcsum and reactivated it in this instance):
>>>>>
>>>>> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>>>>> 1500
>>>>>
>>>>> options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
>>>>>
>>>>>          ether 00:19:99:f8:d3:0b
>>>>>          inet 172.24.42.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.24.42.255
>>>>>          inet6 fe80::219:99ff:fef8:d30b%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>>>>>          nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>>>          media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>>>>>          status: active
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know much about FreeBSD network drivers so i can't make theories
>>>>> about this. I hope someone has an idea what the problem could be.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm available for any further information needed, test, experiment and
>>>>> so on.
>>>>
>>>> Could you show me dmesg output(re(4) and rgephy(4) only)?
>>>
>>> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
>>> 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf2104000-0xf2104fff,0xf2100000-0xf2103fff irq 17 at
>>> device 0.0 on pci3
>>> re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
>>> re0: turning off MSI enable bit.
>>> re0: Chip rev. 0x2c800000
>>> re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
>>> re0: Ethernet address: 00:19:99:f8:d3:0b
>>> miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
>>> rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
>>> rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX,
>>> 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master,
>>> 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow,
>>> 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
>>>
>>> Also, I'm loading this as a module, but, for as much as I know, this
>>> should not make any difference.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Did it ever work or you see the issue only on CURRENT?
>>>
>>> Never worked on this machine (I own it since the last days of February).
>>>
>>> I only installed current on it. If needed I can find time to test a
>>> recent 9.x snapshot on it.
>>
>> Sorry for the delay.
>>
>> I tested with a 9.2 PRERELEASE snapshot and it shows the same behavior
>> it shows on CURRENT.
>>
>> Any further tests or things I can do to help diagnose this problem?
>>
>> --
>> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>
> Greetings,
>  I may be just groping here, but I notice in your ifconfig(8) output:
>>>>>          nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> ________________________________________^^^^^^^^^^
> While you may have explicitly disabled it; my output (also re0) reads:
> nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
>
> Just saying, cause I'm not experiencing your issue(s), and mine is also an onboard
> NIC.
>
> --chris
P.S. There were also recent changes to rc(8) regarding the syntax of ifconfig.
>
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