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 <s...@anarchy.in.the.ph> wrote: > 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: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4> > ether 00:30:48:c5:db:e2 > inet6 fe80::230:48ff:fec5:dbe2%igb0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > igb1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=19b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4> > ether 00:30:48:c5:db:e3 > inet6 fe80::230:48ff:fec5:dbe3%igb1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet 172.17.32.32 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.17.255.255 > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > > The first NIC would always want 100baseTX no matter how I'd ifconfig > down/up it, so I just had to use the 2nd NIC. Unfortunately, this too > is having problems. Like being unable to 'see' some machines on the > same network segment. Some other machines are accessible. And yes I've > double-checked the network stuff (cables, switch, IP settings) and my > conclusion is b0rky NICs. > > pciconf -lvc: > i...@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10c915d9 chip=0x10c98086 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0 > cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector masks > cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 10 messages in map 0x1c enabled > cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint > i...@pci0:1:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0x10c915d9 chip=0x10c98086 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0 > cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector masks > cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 10 messages in map 0x1c enabled > cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint > > So anyone else having igb problems? I'm downloading 200812-CURRENT now > (is tehre gonna be a 200901-CURRENT ISO soon? :-p), I'd like to try > that, but checking cvs seem only a handful of changes. > > Also I did some buildworlds: > make -j8 buildworld > 2846.900u 2266.188s 15:50.43 537.9% 6375+2082k 10084+7937io > 1482pf+0w > make -j16 buildworld > 3518.254u 2175.593s 14:23.29 659.5% 6656+2147k 26165+8546io > 4300pf+0w > make -j32 buildworld > 3582.897u 4437.710s 18:03.88 739.9% 6528+2125k 5725+7930io 1555pf+0w > > Verbose dmesg: http://pastebin.com/f5f799561 > > Thanks! > > > -- > cheers > mars > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"