On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:18:33PM -0400, Michael L. Squires wrote: > I've just tested 8.4-RC3 using a different Supermicro 1U box with a fresh > installation of 8.4-RC3. I had problems with the installation, wouldn't > boot until I used a Windows 98 FDISK to write a master boot record > (no idea why; this system uses an Adaptec SATA 1.5 6-channel PCI-X > board with two > drives in RAID 1). > > Using the em0 interface there are no problems with DHCP; when I > switch to the fxp0 interface the interface starts going up/down in > the same manner as reported. > > The problem appears associated with "world", not with the kernel (running > the 8.4 kernel with the 8.3 world does not have this problem). > > This motherboard is an X5DPL-iGM with 2 Xeon 2.8GHz CPUs and 4 GB of RAM. > The other unit (an earlier board) has a Serverworks chipset with a single > Xeon CPU but also with a 100Mbit Intel Pro100 Ethernet port and a 1000Mbit > Intel Pro1000 Ethernet port. > > This unit isn't doing anything useful, so testing isn't a problem.
Mike, Yong-Hyeon asked you a very important question which you didn't answer: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-May/073458.html If you assign a static IP address, does fxp0 behave properly? I'm also re-adding Yong-Hyeon to the CC list here. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"