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Bug#681089: marked as done (firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets)



Your message dated Wed, 21 Oct 2015 04:34:32 +0100
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and subject line Re: firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets
has caused the Debian Bug report #681089,
regarding firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets
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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*
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alias:          pci:v0000173Bd000003EBsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
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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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Closing as no bug was identified in the firmware or kernel package.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.

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