Broadcom bce interface problems

[Brian McCann]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Diego F. Arias R. <dak.col at gmail.com> wrote:
> do you double-check the internal por assignement? How many switchs  has that
> blade1 or 2?
>
> You can try running a linux live-cd or maybe Windows to discard a FreeBSD
> trouble with the nic. does Freebsd detects 1 or 2 nics, and how many does
> the blade have?
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Brian McCann <bjmccann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:18 AM, H.Fazaeli <fazaeli at sepehrs.com> wrote:
>> > what type of blade switch you are using?
>> > Are you using HS21 onboard ports or an expansion card?
>> >
>> > Make sure the corresponding internal ports of
>> > the blade switch are at 'no shutdown' state.
>> >
>> >
>> > Brian McCann wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm having problems with the bce interface on a FreeBSD 7.2 install,
>> >> using
>> >> an IBM BladeCenter HS21 machine.  The machine uses the NetXtreme II
>> >> card.
>> >>  The really strange thing here is, the switch shows a link, but the
>> >> card
>> >> shows no carrier in the setup.  It started working for a few seconds at
>> >> one
>> >> point when I reset the switch (at least, I think that's what I did),
>> >> and
>> >> it
>> >> detected 1000BaseSX as the media and showed a status of active, but
>> >> promptly
>> >> went away.  If I try setting the media type manually, that doesn't
>> >> appear
>> >> to
>> >> work.
>> >> Has anyone seen this or have any ideas?
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> --Brian
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Best regards.
>> > Hooman Fazaeli
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Yes, I'm using an HS21 onbaord card...the Broadcom.  The internal
>> ports show a link (using the Nortel manager...it's got a the Nortel
>> L3-7 switch in it).
>>
>> I found http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118238 last
>> night...it looks like that change was never commited by anyone...I'm
>> working on recompiling that into 7.1 now and plan on trying it once
>> it's done.  I'll post the results up here (and to freebsd-net as well
>> if it works).
>>
>> I'm really hoping that works...since I really would like to avoid
>> installing VMWare ESXi on 14 blades just to run 1 VM in each of them
>> and loose performance.  I'll keep y'all posted.
>>
>> --Brian
>>
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>
>
> --
> mmm, interesante.....
>

Windows runs fine on them.  I applied the changes mentioned the patch
I just posted, and that fixed the problem...no throughput hit as a
result.  Thanks to all for the help!

--Brian


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