From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 19:45:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lamborghini.indocyber.com (lamborghini.indocyber.com [202.180.0.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2676737B423 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:45:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4440 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2000 02:44:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maverick.indocyber.com) (202.155.43.94) by lamborghini.indocyber.com with SMTP; 24 Aug 2000 02:44:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 1095 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Aug 2000 02:44:30 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:44:30 +0700 From: John Indra To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD locks up frequently... Message-ID: <20000824094430.A722@indocyber.com> References: <20000823114643.A43770@indocyber.com> <00082311504900.48705@idefix.omnix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00082311504900.48705@idefix.omnix.net>; from didier@omnix.net on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:45:14AM +0200 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.2.5i on FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:45:14AM +0200, Didier Derny wrote: |I've had nightmare with the 3com board using the xl0 driver |I dont know if the problem comes from the driver or the board |but our firewall crashed several a day under average load |(average uptime around 6-8 hours) So... it's the NIC that I should suspect... But I've never met this kind of trouble with FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE before. Is the xl driver in RELENG_4 really buggy? |I finally replaced the 3com 3C905-TX board by the only one I had at that moment |a PCI NE2000 clone and now it works like a charm last reboot July 2th 2000 |(just after having removed the 3com boards) Sigh... unfortunately, I don't have another type of NIC. All of our PC is equipped with 3Com's (using xl driver). |[check in you log for "xl0 timeout"] When the machine lock up, it's not under heavy traffic or busy at all. I seldomly see those messages but even when the message appear, the machine is damn fine... Thanks for the reply Regards, John Indra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message