Does That card need specific firmware loaded?
like the older bnx cards ?
I dont see a reference to it in the bnxt man page...


On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 at 05:10, David Gwynne <da...@gwynne.id.au> wrote:
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>
>
> > On 10 Nov 2018, at 12:22 pm, Jonathan Matthew <jonat...@d14n.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 04:35:38AM -0700, Luthing wrote:
> >> Hello there,
> >>
> >> I am facing an issue with a Broadcom NIC (specs here
> >> https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/controllers/bcm57416/#specifications).
> >>
> >> After some troubleshooting, I am not able to resolve listen ARP request 
> >> from
> >> my connected switch.
> >> The NIC has negociated 10G with auto neg enabled on the switch.
> >>
> >> The switch is able to see mac address on the port where the BCM NIC is
> >> connected to. The switch can see ARP request going though him from the NIC.
> >> But, my OBSD cannot receive packets.
> >>
> >> I checked with a tcpdump -i bnxt0, and I see that I am sending ARP 
> >> requests,
> >> but not receiving any response.
> >
> > Send the full dmesg from your machine, output of 'ifconfig bnxt', 'vmstat 
> > -zi' and
> > probably some tcpdump output if anything shows up there.
> >
> > Have you tried both ports, or just bnxt0?
> >
> >>
> >> A arp -a shows an incomplete mac address.
> >>
> >>
> >> "dmesg | grep bn" output is :
> >> bnxt0 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM57416" rev 0x01: fw ver
> >> 20.8.163, apic 10 int 2, address 01:23:45:67:89
> >> bnxt1 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM57416" rev 0x01: fw ver
> >> 20.8.163, apic 10 int 5, address 01:23:45:67:8a
> >> bnxt0 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM57416" rev 0x01: fw ver
> >> 20.8.163, apic 10 int 2, address 01:23:45:67:89
> >> bnxt1 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM57416" rev 0x01: fw ver
> >> 20.8.163, apic 10 int 5, address 01:23:45:67:8a
> >
> > Are those the real mac addresses?  They don't look real.
>
> the low bit of the first byte is especially concerning, as that bit indicates 
> the address is multicast. definitely looks like a placeholder value though, 
> esp as it used on all ports.
>


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