Re: Dell server - ethernet and raid?

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:59:13PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> Martti Kuparinen wrote:
>> Greg Troxel wrote:
>>
>>>   Dell PowerEdge 2900 III
>> ...
>>>   NetBSD/amd64 5.0 release
>>>   mfi(4)
>>>   bge(4)
>>
>> I can't say about mfi as my PE2900 has PERC 5/i but bge gave me lot of  
>> problems with IPv6. The "solution" was to disable Ethernet ports in 
>> BIOS and install (in my case a quad-port) Intel PRO/1000 card.
>
> Sorry, I was wrong, it was bnx and not bge...
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2007/11/09/0001.html

This smells like a failure to set the multicast filter properly; does
everything work if you activate promiscuous mode on the interface using
tcpdump -i bnx0?

Dave

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