Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2

[Dimuthu Parussalla]

Hi,

Dmesg output related to bge as follows.

miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:11:25:e9:7f:58
bge0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 5.0 on pci0
pci8: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6
bge1: <Broadcom BCM5750 B1, ASIC rev. 0x4101> mem 0xc6ff0000-0xc6ffffff irq
16 at device 0.0 on pci8
miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1
brgphy1: <BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1
brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
bge1: Ethernet address: 00:11:25:e9:7f:59
bge1: [GIANT-LOCKED]



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:koitsu at FreeBSD.org]
Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2007 3:36 PM
To: Dimuthu Parussalla
Cc: 'Glen Van Lehn'; freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Intermittent network issues with Freebsd 6.2


On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:09:08PM +1100, Dimuthu Parussalla wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've just noticed when this incident happens Ierrs starting to increase
and
> then interface in not pingable. Refer to output below.
>
> Also how do I set the interface in rc.conf to use 1000baseTX. Without
using
> to autoselect?

You can do the following:

ifconfig_bge0="inet xxx netmask yyy media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"
ifconfig_bge1="inet xxx netmask yyy media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"

See the bge(4) manpage for additional details.

Also, which particular Broadcom chip are you using?  dmesg(8) should
show this, or pciconf -l -v.

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