FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:16:43PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
 > In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said:
 > > OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem.....  I have
 > > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850.  For some
 > > reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly
 > > adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware.
 > > FreeBSD identifies these adapters as BCM5750A1, but Dell says they're
 > > actually Broadcom 5721J adapters instead.  See
 > > 
 > > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/850_specs.pdf
 > > 
 > > for details.  The switch to which the host is connected is a Cisco
 > > Catalyst 3750.  How this relates to FreeBSD, however.....
 > 
 > Have you enabled portfast on the Cisco? 
 > 
 > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/12.html#c2k
 > 
 > Another thing to check is whether you have alias IPs.  I believe the
 > bge driver has to reset the card every time you add or remove an IP.
 > I know the ti driver (whose chipset the broadcom chips are based on)
 > had that problem.
 > 

If there is a way to program multicasting filters correctly
without resettting the hardware there is no need to reset hardware
and it could be easily implemented in ether_ioctl().

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon