Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Mike Hunter
On Aug 19 at 11:50, Paul Koch wrote: The second problem we found was, various NICs would report that they were active after doing auto negotiation, but no rx packets were being passed into to the OS. Not sure if it was a hardware or driver issue, but we discovered that by forcing a packet

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-19 Thread Jo Rhett
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:00:06PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: This is a little off-topic (and I'm no Cisco specialist) but I'm afraid that the loop detection won't happen with portfast. Cisco.com says (the first page that Google gave me): I've deleted the cisco verbage for brevity, but

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:16:43PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:22:56PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Pyun YongHyeon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all! On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured manually on both, switch and the FreeBSD box, ifconfig shows the interface status

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Patrick M. Hausen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured manually on both, switch and the FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Danny Braniss
2006/8/18, Patrick M. Hausen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured manually on both, switch and the

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! This is a little off-topic (and I'm no Cisco specialist) but I'm afraid that the loop detection won't happen with portfast. Cisco.com says (the first page that Google gave me): [ Cisco documentation ] As always: it depends. In this case, what you imply by loop detection. If the loop is

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Vivek Khera
On Aug 17, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Alan Amesbury wrote: adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware. FreeBSD identifies these adapters as BCM5750A1, but Dell says they're actually Broadcom 5721J adapters instead. See

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Alan Amesbury
Thanks for the feedback and discussion! Alas, in terms of network configuration, I'm just a tenant; I have no direct control over the networking gear, nor direct visibility into how the switch is configured. A couple people wrote to me directly and suggested I 'send-pr' this, so I'll do so

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Koch
On Saturday 19 August 2006 03:12, Alan Amesbury wrote: Thanks for the feedback and discussion! Alas, in terms of network configuration, I'm just a tenant; I have no direct control over the networking gear, nor direct visibility into how the switch is configured. A couple people wrote to me

FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Amesbury
OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware. FreeBSD identifies these adapters

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750