Since upgrading to 3.9 I've been having a problem with flakiness from my older PCI quad ethernet card. de3 here is a dhcp interface (crappy SBC DSL), de2 and de1 are internal (wired and wireless).
the symptoms of failure are that de3 will stop sending packets. tcpdump doesn't show outgoing transmissions, dhclient complains "out of buffer space", and even without any active transmissions ifconfig shows OACTIVE in the interface flags. (the machine is up at the moment so I don't have that ifconfig handy, sorry). One other thing I notice is that when I do ask it to do autonegotiate it floods the network with requests, but a hardcode to 100baseTX doesn't work (I don't exactly have a managed switch on the other end) and 10baseT complains that there is no carrier in ifconfig status and dhclient won't run. Any ideas? Simply bad hardware? This was working fine with 3.8 and even a 3.9 snapshot from two months ago before the CDs arrived monday and I did the upgrade. de3: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx groups: egress media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX) status: active inet6 fe80::...%de3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet nn.nn.nn.nn netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast nn.nn.nn.255 OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 501 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX real mem = 804823040 (785960K) avail mem = 726990848 (709952K) using 4278 buffers containing 40345600 bytes (39400K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(1a) BIOS, date 04/12/00, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb380 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xb808 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdde0/144 (7 entries) pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 3 7 10 11 12 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("VIA VT82C596A ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8800 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT82C598 PCI" rev 0x04 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT82C598 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "VIA VT82C596A ISA" rev 0x23 pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x10: ATA66, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST360021A> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 57241MB, 117231408 sectors wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <IBM-DTTA-350840> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063MB, 16514064 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 wd2 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <ST3200826A> wd2: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 190782MB, 390721968 sectors atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <PLEXTOR, CD-R PX-W1210A, 1.09> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable wd2(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 cd0(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x11: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered "VIA VT82C596 Power" rev 0x30 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not configured ppb1 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "DEC 21052 PCI-PCI" rev 0x02 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 de0 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x12: irq 10 de0: ZNYX ZX34X pass 1.2 address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx de1 at pci2 dev 5 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x12: irq 12 de1: ZNYX ZX34X pass 1.2 address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx de2 at pci2 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x12: irq 7 de2: ZNYX ZX34X pass 1.2 address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx de3 at pci2 dev 7 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x12: irq 3 de3: ZNYX ZX34X pass 1.2 address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx vga1 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "NVIDIA Riva TNT" rev 0x04 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ahc0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Adaptec AHA-29160 U160" rev 0x02: irq 7 scsibus1 at ahc0: 16 targets isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: read port 0x203 isapnp0: No current device for tag, card 1 sb1 at isapnp0 "Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL0045, , Audio" port 0x220/16,0x330/2,0x388/4 irq 5 drq 1,5: dsp v4.16 midi1 at sb1: <SB MPU-401 UART> audio0 at sb1 opl0 at sb1: model OPL3 midi2 at opl0: <SB Yamaha OPL3> joy0 at isapnp0 "Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL7002, PNPB02F, Game" port 0x200/8 "Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL0022, , WaveTable" at isapnp0 port 0x620/4 not configured biomask ebd5 netmask ffdd ttymask ffdf pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers) uhidev0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 uhidev0: vendor 0x04fc USB OpticalWheel Mouse, rev 1.10/6.b0, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons and Z dir. wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 wd1: no disk label dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 dkcsum: wd2 matches BIOS drive 0x82 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/