This would probably be helpful. ;) The patch is available from the web at: http://developer.intel.com/design/network/products/software/swsup/SDK_v1-2_p atch.htm Eric Heaton Technical Marketing Engineer Intel Corporation - PNPO phone: 978-568-6027 -----Original Message----- From: Heaton, Eric D [mailto:eric.d.heaton@intel.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:59 AM To: 'ixp1200@CS.Princeton.EDU' Subject: RE: [ixp1200] GigaMAC diagnostic problems... Austen, Yes, there was a problem with a rev of the diagnostics with causes the gigabit port tests to fail. The latest patch for v1.2 (which upgrades the software to 1.2D.76) fixes this problem. Eric Heaton Technical Marketing Engineer Intel Corporation - PNPO phone: 978-568-6027 -----Original Message----- From: Austen McDonald [mailto:austen@cc.gatech.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 4:29 PM To: 'ixp1200@CS.Princeton.EDU' Subject: RE: [ixp1200] GigaMAC diagnostic problems... Im talking about the diagnostics test from Intel---it comes w/ the system. Unless you've removed the diagnostics from the flashROM you should be able to set jumpers 12 & 26 both to 2-3 and restart it. But, if you really want the microcode, its in the BoardSupport/Diagnostics directory of the installation. Austen McDonald austen@cc.gatech.edu God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. -- Albert Einstein On Wed, 23 May 2001, Brandewie, Dirk J wrote:

What microcode are you running to run this test? I will try to reproduce the problem here.

--Dirk

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-----Original Message----- From: Austen McDonald [mailto:austen@cc.gatech.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:22 AM To: ixp1200@CS.Princeton.EDU Subject: [ixp1200] GigaMAC diagnostic problems...

Has anyone tried to use the diagnostics w/ the GigaMACs---we set it up and both internal and external loopback modes fail. We have the MAC enabled w/ jumper J34 and we get the status lights on both the ports when we loop a cable between them but the IXbus tx/rx tests fail---the microcode should send packets and recv them but it doesn't. I'm wondering if this is a hardware problem or a diagnostic program problem. I think it is the latter because if I run my own diagnostic program, I can get the GigaMAC's receive counter to increase when I send it packets (even though it doesnt appear to assert the rxrdy flag when the IX bus polls it). Any guidance?

Austen McDonald austen@cc.gatech.edu

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. -- Albert Einstein