Re: [Bridge] Re: tg3 bridge problems

[Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>]

Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:36:46PM +1030, Paul Schulz wrote:
> 
>>Greetings,
>>
>>This may be the problem that I have seen (and reported) previously...
>>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2004-02/msg00442.html
>>
>>One suggestion.. do a packet dump on an outgoing bridge port, and a 
>>dump from a transmitting machine connected to the bridge. Compare the
>>MD5 checksums.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the idea, but it doesn't seem to help. I've modified the patch
> to apply to my chipset revision (and added a debugging printk to make sure
> I've hit the right chipset :)), but nothing really changed. I didn't
> expect it to either, because this is not a transmit problem, but a
> promiscuous receive problem of the driver/card.
> 
> Greg
> 
You know, there is a tg3_dump_state function that if 0-ed out at the 
moment, which among other things dumps out the chips RX_MODE.  You could 
  uncomment that function and tie it to a private ioctl which you could 
call from user space.  That way you could compare the RX_MODE values in 
a working and a failing environment. If they matched, you could be 
reasonably sure it was a hardware issue, otherwise, you would know your 
looking for a driver bug.

Neil

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