Bingo! I figured out that it was a problem with the checksum offloading shortly after my original email but I had NO clue how to fix it.
Everything is working now and I hope I NEVER have to open these 1U cases again. Jamming the SATA connectors back in after they're covered by the NIC makes me cry. ;) On 9/17/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007/09/17 11:09, slug bait wrote: > > I am currently having problems with my new OpenBSD-4.1 firewall. I have > > installed a PCI-X 4-port Intel Gigabit Ethernet card, but something > appears > > to be broken. The 4 interfaces are detected as em0-3 while the two > on-board > > GB NICs are bge0 and bge1. > > Find a spare jumper, open the box up, remove the NIC (yeah, I know. > you're going to love me when you have to put it back if it's in a 1U > case...) > to access JPXA1 (between the heatsink-covered HT-1000 and the ATI GPU), > put the jumper on 1-2 becuase it's broken at 133MHz (gotta love that > checksum offloading)... > > While you're there, you may also want to move JPL1 to disable the > BCM5704C bge(4) unless you really need them (next to the slot for the > IPMI riser). > > If the box is somewhere with inconvenient access you may also want to > put a jumper on JP2 (front, near the fan header) to force power on > (the BIOS options about this are ... somewhat lacking) > > > bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/26/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010, > > lucky you - mine won't POST with that version unless CMOS is clear > first (every boot), yum... > > I still *mostly* prefer them to X2100 though...

