weird problem with 9.0 Release and ed0

[Christoph P.U. Kukulies]

Am 10.08.2012 11:40, schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies:
> Am 10.08.2012 11:28, schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies:
>> The problem need not to be confined to 9.0. It stated to develop 
>> under 5.1 already.
> read: started to develop...
>>
>> I'm running a natd gateway machine that was developing strange 
>> behaviour such that the
>> outside interface (ed0, BNC connector) that was connected via a small 
>> media converter switch to
>> the providers sync line had dropouts. The machine couldn't ping into 
>> the Internet and also couldn't be pinged.
>>
>> I first thought it was the switch/media converter, but another 
>> (Windows XP) machine that was on the
>> same BNC cable worked flawlessly.
>>
>> So I decided to migrate that 5.1 machine to a 9.0 machine. The 
>> situation now is that I have the9.0 machine
>> at the BNC cable and simultanously the old FreeBSD 5.1 gateway on the 
>> same BNC cable but through a
>> TP adapter. This was the old machine works fine and I can care about 
>> the new machine.
>>
>> Is there a known problem with ed0 cards that have the Realtek 8029 
>> chipset. Do they need some
>> special flags like memory mapping or irq?
>>
>> When I for example boot the 9.0 machine the comping up of the em0 (on 
>> mainboard interface results in a highlighted
>> kernel message on the console. The coming up of the ed0 is not 
>> flagged this way. And as a result the
>> ed0 interface seems to be dead.
>>
>>
>> Here some excerpts of dmesg:
>> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.2.3> port 0x4400-0x441f 
>> mem 0x93100000-0x9311ffff,0x93124000-0x93124fff irq 20 at device 25.0 
>> on pci0
>> em0: Using an MSI interrupt
>> em0: Ethernet address: 00:1c:c0:37:b2:9f
>>
>> ed0: <RealTek 8029> port 0x1000-0x101f irq 22 at device 1.0 on pci7
>> ed0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:7d:7c:2b:4a
>>
>> I also see this:
>> Jul 30 23:03:54 forum ntpd[1711]: unable to create socket on ed0 (20) 
>> for fe80::
>> 2e0:7dff:fe7c:2b4a#123
>
> Forgot to add this info:
>
> ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:e0:7d:7c:2b:4a
>         inet 80.72.44.230 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 80.72.44.239
>         inet6 fe80::2e0:7dff:fe7c:2b4a%ed0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (10base2/BNC)
>

Must add some more info:

My kernel config:

cpu             I486_CPU
cpu             I586_CPU
cpu             I686_CPU
ident           DIVERT

makeoptions     DEBUG=-g                # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug 
symbols
options IPFIREWALL
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10
options IPDIVERT
options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT

(the rest like in GENERIC).

Strange thing:

I cannot ping neither the outside interface address nor the inside 
(172.27.2.115)

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Christoph Kukulies