SunFire X2200 ilo's bge1 DOWN/UP

[Daniel Braniss]

> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 05:31:13PM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > hi, after upgrading to 9.1-stable, this particular hardware - SunFire X2200,
> 
> Show me dmesg(bge(4) and brgphy(4) only) and 'ifconfig bge1' output.
> 

bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x009003> mem 
0xfdff0000-0xfdffffff,0xfdfe0000-0xfdfeffff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci6
bge0: CHIP ID 0x00009003; ASIC REV 0x09; CHIP REV 0x90; PCI-X 133 MHz
miibus2: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5714 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus2
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:1b:24:5d:5b:bd
bge1: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x009003> mem 
0xfdfc0000-0xfdfcffff,0xfdfb0000-0xfdfbffff irq 18 at device 4.1 on pci6
bge1: CHIP ID 0x00009003; ASIC REV 0x09; CHIP REV 0x90; PCI-X 133 MHz
miibus3: <MII bus> on bge1
brgphy1: <BCM5714 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus3
brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
bge1: Ethernet address: 00:1b:24:5d:5b:be

sf-10> ifconfig bge1
bge1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTA
TE>
        ether 00:1b:24:5d:5b:be
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

> > is toggeling bge1 DOWN/UP every few hours, this port is being used by the ILO.
> > To check, I upgraded another identical host, and the same problem appears. 
> 
> What is the last known working revision?

I have no idea, but I have older versions, and ill start from the oldets 
(9.1-prerelease), but
it will take time, since it takes hours till it happens.

> 
> > There
> > is not correlation with time, since they happend at totaly different times.
> > I rebooted both hosts at almost the same time.
> > one host :
> > uptime: 5:24PM  up  6:15, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > May 24 12:53:52 sf-04 kernel: bge1: link state changed to DOWN
> > May 24 12:53:55 sf-04 kernel: bge1: link state changed to UP
> > May 24 15:34:25 sf-04 kernel: bge1: link state changed to DOWN
> > May 24 15:34:28 sf-04 kernel: bge1: link state changed to UP
> > 
> > and
> > uptime: 5:24PM  up  6:14, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > 
> > May 24 16:30:44 sf-10 kernel: bge1: link state changed to DOWN
> > May 24 16:30:44 sf-10 kernel: bge1: link state changed to UP
> > 
> > this is not serious, the ilo (ssh) connection is ok, but it's anoying, we have 
> > more
> > than 10 of this hosts, and if I upgrade all of them, the logs will fill up
> > with this :-)
> > 
> > any ideas?
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 	danny