FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Aug 18 02:16:45 UTC 2006
In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said:
> OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem..... I have
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some
> reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly
> adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware.
> FreeBSD identifies these adapters as BCM5750A1, but Dell says they're
> actually Broadcom 5721J adapters instead. See
>
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/850_specs.pdf
>
> for details. The switch to which the host is connected is a Cisco
> Catalyst 3750. How this relates to FreeBSD, however.....
Have you enabled portfast on the Cisco?
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/12.html#c2k
Another thing to check is whether you have alias IPs. I believe the
bge driver has to reset the card every time you add or remove an IP.
I know the ti driver (whose chipset the broadcom chips are based on)
had that problem.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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