bce(4) panics, 9.2rc1 [redux]

Barney Cordoba barney_cordoba at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 30 01:34:10 UTC 2013





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 From: Sean Bruno <sean_bruno at yahoo.com>
To: "freebsd-net at freebsd.org" <freebsd-net at freebsd.org> 
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: bce(4) panics, 9.2rc1 [redux]
 

On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 14:07 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: 
> Running 9.2 in production load mail servers.  We're hitting the
> "watchdog" message and crashing with the stable/9 version.  We're
> reverting the change from 2 weeks ago and seeing if it still happens.
> We didn't see this from stable/9 from about a month ago.
> 
> 
> Sean

Not seeing any changes to core dumps, or crashes after updating the
bce(4) interface on these Dell R410s.  IPMI was a definite false hope.
No changes noted after I modified the ipmi_attach code.

stable/7 works just fine and stable/9 fails with "NMI" erros on the
console very badly.  It fails so badly that it won't come into service
at all.  I've reverted stable/9 back to august of 2012 with no changes.


It sort of looks like r236216 is causing severe issues with my
configuration.  The Dell R410 has a 3rd ethernet interface for the BMC
only, not sure if that is meaningful in this context.

The 3rd interface is *not* visible from the o/s and is dedicated to the
BMC interface.

Doing more testing at this time to validate.

Sean


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FWIW, I have an R210 with a BCM5716 running 9.1 RELEASE without
any problems. I have customized the driver a bit. Try turning off the
"features" and running it raw without any checksum or tso gobbledygook. 


BC


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