Intel Dual port pro/1000: watchdog timeouts and no packets received

[Barney Cordoba]

--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Andrew Snow <andrew at modulus.org> wrote:

> From: Andrew Snow <andrew at modulus.org>
> Subject: Intel Dual port pro/1000: watchdog timeouts and no packets received
> To: "FreeBSD Net" <freebsd-net at freebsd.org>
> Cc: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 3:40 AM
> 
> This is a very new card which I haven't seen before on the
> market until recently.
> 
> Card: E1G42ET (Intel Gigabit PCIe ET Dual Port 
> Adapter 82576)
> Server: Supermicro X7SLA-H
> Operating system:  FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and 7.2-STABLE
> IGB Drivers: 1.4.1 and updated 1.7.3 from intel website
> 
> 
> 
> igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection version -
> 1.7.3> port 0xcc00-0xcc1f mem
> 0xfe9e0000-0xfe9fffff,0xfe400000-0xfe7fffff,0xfe9dc000-0xfe9dffff
> irq 10 at device 0.0 on pci1
> igb0: Using MSIX interrupts with 0 vectors
> igb0: [FILTER]
> igb0: Ethernet address: 00:1b:21:43:2f:a0
> 
> igb1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection version -
> 1.7.3> port 0xc880-0xc89f mem
> 0xfe9a0000-0xfe9bffff,0xfdc00000-0xfdffffff,0xfe9d8000-0xfe9dbfff
> irq 11 at device 0.1 on pci1
> igb1: Using MSIX interrupts with 0 vectors
> igb1: [FILTER]
> igb1: Ethernet address: 00:1b:21:43:2f:a1
> 
> igb0 at pci0:1:0:0:        class=0x020000
> card=0xa03c8086 chip=0x10c98086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel
> Corporation'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
> igb1 at pci0:1:0:1:        class=0x020000
> card=0xa03c8086 chip=0x10c98086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel
> Corporation'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
> Card detects OK but when you assign an IP and try to ping,
> no packets are received, not even ARP replies.
> 
> This appears on the console:
> 
> igb0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> igb0: Queue(0) tdh = 9, tdt = 9
> igb0: Queue(0) desc avail = 247, Next Desc to Clean = 0
> igb0: link state changed to DOWN
> igb0: link state changed to UP
> 

0 MSI/X vectors can't be a good thing. Another late night for Jack...


BC