Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-12 Thread Mars G Miro
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] If you have a back to back connection to another NIC on Port 0, no

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-09 Thread Mars G Miro
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am at Intel you know, and even we don't seem to have any systems with 82576 down in my group here. The way link works I can be about 99.9% sure

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-09 Thread Jack Vogel
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am at Intel you know, and even we don't seem to have any systems

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-09 Thread Mars G Miro
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] If you have a back to back connection to another NIC on Port 0, no switch, does it still autoneg to 100? Connected back to back w/

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-09 Thread Mars G Miro
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] If you have a back to back connection to another NIC on Port 0, no switch, does it still autoneg to 100? Connected back to back w/ another box w/ a GigE NIC, it now does 1000baseTX: igb0:

igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Mars G Miro
Hi guys, I just got on my hands today a NEHALEM system: 2 x 5560 Nehalem CPU (2.8GHz, 8MB cache memory, 6.4GT/sec [QPI]) 12GB 1333Mhz DDR3 Memory 1 x 500GB SATA HDD FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE/amd64 install fine, however I seemed to be having problems w/ its built-in Intel NICs: igb0:

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Jack Vogel
I have not seen a problem like this ever, what is the link partner of each NIC and if you switch the ports what happens? We have Nehalem's in the validation lab but I have not had an excuse to install on one so far, I guess now I do :) Jack On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Mars G Miro

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Mars G Miro
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: I have not seen a problem like this ever, what is the link partner of each NIC and if you switch the ports what happens? Hi Jack, They're connected to a GigE switch. It was just one w/ the first NIC, but having seen that

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Mars G Miro
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am at Intel you know, and even we don't seem to have any systems with 82576 down in my group here. The way link works I can be about 99.9% sure in saying its not the driver. Its preproduction so there are lots of

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Jack Vogel
So it wasn't identified during install but was in the kernel you built afterward, is that what you're saying? Even if that's true I don't think its relevant to the failure. I have made a couple queries internally, there are a lot of variations on Nehalem systems, at least one other engineer in my

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Mars G Miro
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: So it wasn't identified during install but was in the kernel you built afterward, is that what you're saying? Even if that's true I don't think its relevant to the failure. Ahm no, sysinstall said something like: igb0:

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 02:50:45AM +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am at Intel you know, and even we don't seem to have any systems with 82576 down in my group here. The way link works I can be about 99.9% sure in