Marvell chipsets on 8-CURRENT and XP x64 won't talk with one another

[Mike Silbersack]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> Hi,
> 	In an effort to connect my 2 machines up -- the FreeBSD 8-CURRENT and 
> the Windows box, for filesharing via SMB I've installed samba3 and done that 
> song and dance to get things to work. The really weird thing is that my 2 
> machines will talk via ICMP with one another, but not via TCP and/or UDP 
> (connections time out). Thinking that it was just a samba3 issue, I tried ssh 
> as well (Cygwin installed), and ssh connections (Windows to FreeBSD) fails 
> with connection timeouts as well.
> 	Both machines have Marvell onboard chipsets and will communicate with 
> my Mac OSX 10.4.9 iBook (has a Broadcom chipset) without issue (in fact 
> that's what I'm using as my 'bridge' right now). I tried also using an SMB 
> client via my Xbox but that failed as well (then again the XBMC SMB client 
> tended to be really quirky if setup incorrectly).
> 	I'm not sure where to start, so if there are any ideas I'd be more 
> than happy to hear them. This issue has been occurring from 7-CURRENT built 
> in late September to 8-CURRENT built 6 days ago.
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

Just to clarify, how are the two hooked together?  Is it over gigabit 
switch, a 10mbps hub, or directly cabled together?

-Mike