fxp multicast forwarding problems

[Jack Vogel]

LOL, sorry to disappoint you but I'm not responsible for fxp, Intel didn't write
it, and i've never touched it :)  Now that wouldnt mean that I can't look at it,
but I am very busy right now, so unless there's no alternative I'd rather not.

Jack


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:46:25AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Whilst doing some QA work on XORP on my desktop, which has fxp0 and
>> msk0, fxp0 got totally hosed.
>> I was running PIM-SM and IGMPv2 router-mode on the box at the time.
>>
>> I wonder if this is related to the problems with fxp multicast
>> transmission I saw back in April.
>> I'm a bit concerned about this as fxp is still a very widespread and
>> useful network chip.
>>
>> I am running 7.0-RELEASE-p4/amd64.
>> sysctls for dev.fxp.0 are set to their default values.
>>
>> I'm not expert on the fxp driver internals, but perhaps someone else has
>> seen this kind of problem before. Multicast-promiscuous mode (aka
>> ALLMULTI) was enabled on the interface. I know some NICs have problems
>> with this, or don't even support it.
>>
>> The errors look like this:
>> fxp0: SCB timeout: 0x10 0x0 0x80 0x0
>> fxp0: SCB timeout: 0x10 0x0 0x80 0x0
>> fxp0: DMA timeout
>> ... repeated ...
>>
>> Attempted workarounds which don't work to un-wedge the chip:
>> Reload the fxp0 microcode with "ifconfig fxp0 link0"
>> Forcibly unloading the kernel module and reloading it
>> Unpatching and repatching at the switch (a cheap 10/100 one)
>> Enabling and disabling promiscuous mode
>> Twiddling dev.fxp.0.noflow
>>
>> The link status looks fine, but the card will not send or receive traffic.
>> A warm reboot was enough to get things back up again.
>>
>> regards,
>> BMS
>
> Adding Jack Vogel, who's responsible for fxp(4).
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