Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-09-01 Thread Tobias Ernst
Nikos Vassiliadis schrieb: I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows machine that is connected to the same switch as my two FreeBSD machines and does not even talk to them explicitly influence the autonegotation of the FreeBSD NIC? I didn't say that a Windows

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-09-01 Thread Mel
On Friday 31 August 2007 20:55:13 Tobias Ernst wrote: Hi, I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a driver/hardware issue. As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard bge2, bge3: BCM5704, PCIX card bge4,

strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
Dear all, I've got two xSeries 346 servers here with a total of 6 Broadcom gigabit NIC's each. I'm going to build a firewall with them, but right now I'm in an early testing stage. The OS is FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for amd64. Each of the machines is currently configured to have an IP from our

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
Hi, I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a driver/hardware issue. As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard bge2, bge3: BCM5704, PCIX card bge4, bge5: BCM5704, PCIX card I have now greatly simplified the

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 31 August 2007 21:55, Tobias Ernst wrote: Hi, I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a driver/hardware issue. As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard bge2, bge3: BCM5704, PCIX card bge4,

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 31 August 2007 22:30, I correctly wrote: Did you try without forcing a link speed(check ifconfig -m) s/without // anything useful in dmesg? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
Nikos Vassiliadis schrieb: On Friday 31 August 2007 22:30, I correctly wrote: Did you try without forcing a link speed(check ifconfig -m) s/without // anything useful in dmesg? No, nothing at all in dmesg. I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows machine that is

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:48:35 +0200, Tobias Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows machine that is connected to the same switch as my two FreeBSD machines and does not even talk to them explicitly influence the autonegotation of the