SunFire X2200 ilo's bge1 DOWN/UP

[Daniel Braniss]

> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:59:28AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> 
> Because bge1 is not UP, I wonder how you get link UP/DOWN events.
> Do you have some network script run by cron?

no scripts.
this port is shared with the ILO/IPMI, and back in March you fixed a problem
that it was hanging soon after it was initialized by the driver,
(r248226 - but I'm not sure if it was ever MFC'ed).
Initialy I thought it could be caused by connections to it from other
hosts (either via the web, or ssh) so I killed them, but it didn't help.
without that patch the connection fails, and I don't see any DOWN/UP.

> 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> 
> ok.