The Intel PRO/1000F NIC does not seem to be fully supported by the wx
driver. I have directly connected two of these cards with a fiber patch
cable, link lights are on, and the driver tells me "wx0: gigabit link now
up".
However, pings across the link fail, because packets are simply swallowed:
For a ping, I can see the ARP request go out in tcpdump, the TX light
flickers, but the remote end never receives anything. We're using FreeBSD
4.2-RELEASE.
The same setup works fine under Windows 2000, so I doubt it's
hardware-related.
[larse@hbo: ~] dmesg | grep wx
wx0: <Intel GigaBit Ethernet (LIVENGOOD_SC)> mem
0xfafd0000-0xfafdffff,0xfafe0000-0xfaffffff irq 16 at device 4.0 on pci3
wx0: Ethernet address 00:03:47:07:e8:10
bpf: wx0 attached
wx0: gigabit link now up
[larse@hbo: ~] ifconfig -L wx0
wx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::203:47ff:fe07:e810%wx0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 128.9.112.174 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 128.9.127.255
ether 00:03:47:07:e8:10
media: 1000baseSX <full-duplex> (autoselect <full-duplex>) status:
active
supported media: 1000baseSX <full-duplex> 1000baseSX
Please let me know how I can help to track this down!
Lars
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