Bug#681089: firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree
Version: 0.35~bpo60+1
Severity: normal
With standard squeeze kernel seemingly once a day the nic stops
working. Looking at the switch port it seems the nic is transmitting (or
retransmitting) something as fast as possible. A simple ifdown/ifup
seems to cure for rest of working day.
The latest backport kernel 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 and firmware-linux-nonfree_0.35~bpo60+1 the nic does seems to be stable. iperf reports 1gb performance. However the count of dropped packets is not zero.
I have changed cables and switch ports. There is another other gigabit nic on the switch. This is a nVidia Corporation MCP77 and this has no errors or dropped packets.
I also have tried the module 3.122n from Broadcom. The nic stops working after a few minutes with the switch port showing rapid transmission sympton as per 1st para. Interestingy the 3.122n module does not update the firmware files in /lib/firmware...
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (Debian 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1) (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) ) #1 SMP Fri Jun 29 20:42:29 UTC 2012
lspci:
11:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
$ sudo ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
Link detected: yes
$ sudo ethtool -k eth0
Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp-segmentation-offload: on
udp-fragmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: on
large-receive-offload: off
ntuple-filters: off
receive-hashing: off
$ sudo ethtool -i eth0
driver: tg3
version: 3.121
firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02
bus-info: 0000:11:00.0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c
inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:5aff:fed3:d00c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:123154 errors:0 dropped:26 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:131936 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15913111 (15.1 MiB) TX bytes:107913843 (102.9 MiB)
Interrupt:19
$ sudo modinfo tg3
filename: /lib/modules/3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.ko
firmware: tigon/tg3_tso5.bin
firmware: tigon/tg3_tso.bin
firmware: tigon/tg3.bin
version: 3.121
license: GPL
description: Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver
author: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) and Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
srcversion: B3CF27212BBCF0D51E64F1E
alias: pci:v000010CFd000011A2sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000106Bd00001645sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000173Bd000003EAsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000173Bd000003EBsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000173Bd000003E9sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000173Bd000003E8sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001148d00004500sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001148d00004400sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000165Fsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001657sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016B6sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016B2sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016B4sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016B0sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016B5sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016B1sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001656sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001655sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001691sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001694sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001690sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001692sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016A0sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001699sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001689sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001688sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001680sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001681sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000165Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001684sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001698sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001713sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001712sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016DDsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000166Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000166Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001679sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001678sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001669sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001668sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000167Fsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001693sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000169Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000169Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001674sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001673sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000167Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001672sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000167Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016FEsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016FDsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016F7sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001601sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001600sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000167Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000167Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001677sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000165Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001659sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000166Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001649sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000170Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000170Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000169Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000169Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001696sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016C7sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016C6sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016A8sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016A7sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d000016A6sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000165Esv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000165Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001654sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001653sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000164Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001648sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001647sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001646sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001645sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00001644sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends: libphy
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm: tg3_debug:Tigon3 bitmapped debugging message enable value (int)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages.
firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.99~bpo60+1 tools for generating an initramfs
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-am 2.6.32-45 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
ii linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PCs
-- no debconf information
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