Re: kern/51531: Recent networking regression affecting installs

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51531; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
To: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/51531: Recent networking regression affecting installs
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:48:16 +0200

 Roy Marples wrote:
 > Personally I would be inclinded to remove the ping test entirely - the
 > fact it passes is not a guarantee it can download sets.
 
 I agree - not only is the test passing no guarantee that sets can be
 downloaded, but also, the ping test failing is no guarantee that
 downloading the sets will fail.  But I don't think that has anything
 to do with the present issue: the problem is that downloading the sets
 fails, and whether the ping test succeeds, fails, or even exists is
 irrelevant.
 
 > > It is cabled to a 10baseT (sic) hub.  I could try a 100baseTX switch
 > > and see if that makes a difference.
 > 
 > Please do.
 
 Done.  It made no difference.  Here's the ifconfig output from immediately
 after the ftp command failed:
 
 sk0: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         ec_capabilities=5<VLAN_MTU,JUMBO_MTU>
         ec_enabled=0
         address: 00:1b:fc:9e:0f:b4
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause)
         status: active
         inet 10.169.0.2/24 broadcast 10.169.0.255 flags 0x1<TENTATIVE>
         inet6 fe80::21b:fcff:fe9e:fb4%sk0/64 flags 0x2<TENTATIVE> scopeid 0x3
 
 And 120 seconds later:
 
 sk0: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         ec_capabilities=5<VLAN_MTU,JUMBO_MTU>
         ec_enabled=0
         address: 00:1b:fc:9e:0f:b4
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause)
         status: active
         inet 10.169.0.2/24 broadcast 10.169.0.255 flags 0x0
         inet6 fe80::21b:fcff:fe9e:fb4%sk0/64 flags 0x0 scopeid 0x3
 
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 Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost