PATCH : ARP problem with 6.2-STABLE Intel PRO/1000 NIC, latest em driver

[Mark Costlow]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:13:36PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote:
[...snip...]
> >>
> >> Don't bother installing CURRENT, just got out of my meeting and I found
> >> out what the problem is. There is indeed an issue with management, and
> >> its something our test group isnt set up to test. I will send a patch to
> >> try sometime before end of day.
> 
> OK, here is the patch, this should fix it...

Hi Jack, the patch didn't seem to have any effect.  When I run "tcpdump -n arp"
after rebooting with this patch, I still see 2-3 ARPs per minute instead of
100-200 per minute.

I was patching against:
/*$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/em/if_em.c,v 1.65.2.22 2007/03/01 17:32:27 csjp Exp $*/

Is that correct?

I tried both SMP and non-SMP kernels, with same results.  Is there
anything I can do to gather some additional debug information from the
system while it's running?

I neglected to mention before the specific motherboard model:
Supermicro X7DVL-E.  There is no IPMI card installed, and no
IPMI setting in the BIOS.

Thanks,

Mark
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