Broadcom BCM5701 / HP NC6770

[Erich Jenkins, Fuujin Group Ltd]

Evgenii Davidov wrote:
> Здравствуйте,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:39:16AM -0600, Erich Jenkins, Fuujin Group Ltd пишет:
> 
>> We were previously running 5.3 on this box (I know, VERY old), but never 
>> had a problem. The link now fails to come up. I've tried forcing the 
>> port out of auto (media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex) and as long as 
>> the port doesn't have an IP assigned via rc.conf on system boot, I can 
>> get the switch to see it (Cisco 6505), but no traffic to flow. I've 
>> checked all the obvious things (duplex setting on switch, cable failure, 
>> etc.), all to no avail. I fiddled with the knobs in the driver (rxcsum, 
>> vlan_mtu, etc) with no changes either.
> 
> sorry for silly ansver but is your interface UP ? (ifconfig bge0 up)
> 

Actually, I was silly for not mentioning that in the original post, but 
yes, it's up. I've even tried up/down/up on the card a few times after 
fiddling with the driver knobs, but the same thing happened, no link on 
the switch.

I've also tested this back-to-back with two machines and the same cards. 
Same result: no transmission of data. Interestingly enough, the link 
lite is lit on the cards (in back-to-back) and on the card but not the 
switch. Not sure if that's significant or not. In the interest if 
completeness, here's ifconfig output for that card:

bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
         options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
         ether 00:08:02:28:76:4d
         inet 10.222.222.144 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.222.222.255
         media: Ethernet 1000baseSX <full-duplex>
         status: active

I also verified the MTU size to ensure the switch ports weren't 
configured for jumbo frames. They are correctly set on the switch and on 
the FreeBSD box, but no traffic flows.

-- 
Erich M. Jenkins
Fuujin Group Limited

"You should never, never doubt what no one is sure about."
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