Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Mike Hunter
On Aug 19 at 11:50, "Paul Koch" wrote: > The second problem we found was, various NICs would report that they > were "active" after doing auto negotiation, but no rx packets were > being passed into to the OS. Not sure if it was a hardware or driver > issue, but we discovered that by forcing a

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Jo Rhett
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:00:06PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > This is a little off-topic (and I'm no Cisco specialist) but I'm > afraid that the loop detection won't happen with portfast. Cisco.com > says (the first page that Google gave me): I've deleted the cisco verbage for brevity, but t

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Koch
On Saturday 19 August 2006 03:12, Alan Amesbury wrote: > Thanks for the feedback and discussion! Alas, in terms of network > configuration, I'm just a tenant; I have no direct control over the > networking gear, nor direct visibility into how the switch is > configured. > > A couple people wrote t

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Alan Amesbury
Thanks for the feedback and discussion! Alas, in terms of network configuration, I'm just a tenant; I have no direct control over the networking gear, nor direct visibility into how the switch is configured. A couple people wrote to me directly and suggested I 'send-pr' this, so I'll do so (hopef

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Vivek Khera
On Aug 17, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Alan Amesbury wrote: adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware. FreeBSD identifies these adapters as BCM5750A1, but Dell says they're actually Broadcom 5721J adapters instead. See http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/850_spe

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! > This is a little off-topic (and I'm no Cisco specialist) but I'm > afraid that the loop detection won't happen with portfast. Cisco.com > says (the first page that Google gave me): > [ Cisco documentation ] As always: it depends. In this case, what you imply by "loop detection". If the loo

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Danny Braniss
> 2006/8/18, Patrick M. Hausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the > > > autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured > > > manually on both,

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Patrick M. Hausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the > autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured > manually on both, switch and the FreeBS

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all! On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:23:15PM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't know how it works exactly. In our case when the > autodetection is disabled and there is e.g. 100/full configured > manually on both, switch and the FreeBSD box, ifconfig shows the > interface statu

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: > >> OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have > >> Free

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:22:56PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > > 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: > > >> OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem.

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51:07AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > 2006/8/18, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: > >> OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have > >> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 85

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:16:43PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: > > OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have > > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some > > reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell ch

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-18 Thread Martin Horcicka
2006/8/18, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: > OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some > reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectl

Re: FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Alan Amesbury said: > OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some > reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly > adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE75

FreeBSD boots too fast on Dell PE850

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Amesbury
OK, booting *too* quickly is a somewhat unusual problem. I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. For some reason, in the PowerEdge 850 Dell chose to replace the perfectly adequate em(4) adapters found on the PE750 with bge(4) hardware. FreeBSD identifies these adapters