If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time out for the nic ? I only ask as I am having the exact same problem with the exact same card and I have yet to find a solution, if I come across something I will let you know.
Regards Graeme -----Original Message----- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 26 January 2009 18:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > Just to put you in context, I applied the following patch to make the > card available: > > SVN rev 186389 on 2008-12-22 00:46:22Z by yongari > > Since we don't request reset for rlphy(4), the link state 'UP' > event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already > established. To address the issue, check current link state after > driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in > r185753 on fast ethernet controllers. > > --- > > I don't have any issue related to that anymore. The problem is that I > get link UP/DOWN a few times per hour on 3 identical machines that I > dumped/restored. They are all pluged in a Cisco switch that works fine > for every other PCs. > > Jan 26 06:09:15 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN > Jan 26 06:09:17 term005 kernel: re0: link state changed to UP > > I tried to switch cables, but I got the same result. > > There is the pciconf -lv output: > > r...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x02831028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' > device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > There is the output of vmstat -i: > > interrupt total rate > irq18: re0 ehci0++ 63766 0 > irq19: atapci0 277001 3 > cpu0: timer 156068748 1961 > Total 156409515 1966 > > Could it be related to the fact that there is re0 and ehci0++ on the > same IRQ? > > Thank you for your help, > > Martin I just tried with a brand new Dell 2708 switch and the problem is still there. I just confirmed that the UP/DOWN occurs every 10 minutes (+- a few seconds). Thanks again, Martin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
