problems with bge and cisco gbic-t sfp

[Michael K. Smith]

On the Cisco interface side, try:

No speed nonegotiate

Mike
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Michael K. Smith                        mksmith at noanet.net
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> From: Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:26:15 -0700 (PDT)
> To: kama <kama at pvp.se>
> Cc: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: problems with bge and cisco gbic-t sfp
> 
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, kama wrote:
> 
>> I have a problem with the connection between my bge card and a cisco 7609
>> with a gbic-t sfp.
>> 
>> uname
>> 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Tue Apr 5 11:21:17 CEST 2005.
>> 
>> dmesg
>> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x1002> mem
>> 0xf7df0000-0xf7dfffff irq 29 at device 1.0 on pci2
>> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
>> brgphy0: <BCM5703 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
>> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
>> 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
>> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:9d:93:f1:dd
>> 
>> ifconfig
>> bge0: flags=9843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>         options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
>>         inet X.X.X.X netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast X.X.X.X
>>         ether 00:0d:9d:93:f1:dd
>>         media: Ethernet 1000baseTX <full-duplex>
>>         status: active
>> 
>> When I run ifconfig repeatitly I get strange answers on media.
>> 
>> media: Ethernet 1000baseTX <full-duplex> (10GBASE-SR <full-duplex>)
>> media: Ethernet 1000baseTX <full-duplex> (10baseT <half-duplex>)
>> ...
>> 
>> Sometimes the status changes to none and back to active.
>> 
>> On the other end I get nothing... The interface looks like its up and
>> everything is OK. But it does not recognise the up and down as I see the
>> status. I can reboot the system without it noticing anything. I dont think
>> its a problem with the cisco hardware, but a bge driver issue or something
>> related to the driver, like mii. The cables are CAT-6. The GBIC-T can only
>> run at 1000base-T.
>> 
>> I have other servers connected through an older and bigger GBIC-T and I
>> cant find any problems on those. But they are running FreeBSD 4.x and not
>> 5.x
> 
> Try these, in order:
> 
> 1. Replace the cables.
> 2. Force the media types on both ends. Ciscos are famously picky about
> autoneg.
> 
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