Re: port-amd64/47782 - ifconfig SIOCSIFMEDIA error with bge

[Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/47782; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>
To: "Stephen M. Jones" <smj%cirr.com@localhost>
Cc: port-amd64%netbsd.org@localhost, msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost, 
gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-amd64/47782 - ifconfig SIOCSIFMEDIA error with bge
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 11:51:54 +0900

 (2013/05/02 2:47), Stephen M. Jones wrote:
 > Just a quick follow up to port-amd64/47782
 >
 > I did a fresh install on several SuperMicro amd64 servers with bge ethernet
 > interfaces and configured both bge's in an acceptable fashion.  I then clean
 > booted the servers 865 times to gather some stats.
 >
 > Background:  I'm using NetBSD ukato 6.0.1 NetBSD 6.0.1 (GENERIC) amd64.  I
 > was using a custom kernel with bge/brgphy, but thought for this test using
 > generic would be best.
 >
 > ifconfig.bge0:
 > up
 > media autoselect
 > 192.94.73.7 netmask 0xffffff00 media autoselect
 >
 > ifconfig.bge1:
 > up
 > media autoselect
 > 10.0.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 media autoselect
 >
 > bge1 always had its interface successfully configured.  However, bge0
 > failed with an ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Invalid argument 343 times, but was
 > successful 522 times (total of 865 clean boots).
 >
 > For media and mediaopts I did implicitly set those, but still ran into issues
 > with bge0 failing iwth a SIOCSIFMEDIA.  When the interface is in this state,
 > you cannot even do a simple ifconfig bge0 192.94.73.7 to bring the interface
 > up even by doing a ksh /etc/rc.d/network stop first.  I believe that this
 > is likely a serious bug.  Originally I thought that this may be an autoneg
 > issue with the switch, but simple ifconfigs are failing without a reboot.
 >
 > However, if I'm overlooking something that has changed between NetBSD 4.0.1
 > and 6.x, please feel free to stick my nose in it.
 
   Could you show me the full dmesg of the machine with BGE_DEBUG option?
 
 
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