From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 15:13:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from outhub2.tibco.com (outhub2.tibco.com [63.100.100.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19ED237B708 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by outhub2.tibco.com; id PAA22517; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from na-h-inhub2.tibco.com(10.106.128.34) by outhub2.tibco.com via smap (V4.1) id xma022481; Wed, 19 Jun 02 15:00:43 -0700 Received: from mail1.tibco.com (nsmail2.tibco.com [10.106.128.42]) by na-h-inhub2.tibco.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5JLoTFl004811 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tibco.com ([10.105.146.230]) by mail1.tibco.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GXZ3T400.MNM for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:00:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3D10FEE5.6000403@tibco.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:00:05 -0700 From: "Aram Compeau" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en,zh,fr,ja,ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: VIA EPIA mobo ethernet connection time out weirdness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Anyone else had any trouble with the ethernet on the VIA EPIA motherboards? I considered cross-posting to freebsd-hardware, but I currently suspect the problem is not the hardware. Anyway, here's what I'm seeing: Brief synopsis: Running apache2, boa, ftpd, or even nc (netcat), I cannot seem to complete large-ish transfers to client machines (various Win32). The connection times out partway through the transfer. With extremely small files, it seems to go through ok. Downloading from other machines seems ok. Details: - running 4.6-RELEASE - VIA EPIA motherboard with C3 800MHz and lots of integrated VIA components (ethernet, etc.). - Using the vr ethernet driver along with miibus (hardware is VIA Rhine II, I think). - 128MB RAM and a 20GB IBM travelstar notebook HD - no other hardware (small silent machine :-) - The LAN is over a UMAX UGATE-3200 switch/firewall - Same problem with GENERIC or custom kernel (I can send the kernel config file and dmesg output later - I do not have either one at work currently). - Using dhclient for DHCP against the UMAX (has a built in DHCP server). - I have tried two different "known good" ethernet cables, and I don't think it's hardware - Downloads run fine, so if I connect to other machines and pull data down, there is no connection timeout problem. - netstat doesn't reported any dropped packets or anything that looks bizarre - While trying to ftp a 120MB file from a Win32 client, netstat printed its header line, and hanged. Otherwise, netstat hasn't shown anything weird going on (at least to me) - While running apache2 or boa on the BSD box, clients can get text html docs with no discernal problem. Pulling down an image (~70-100k) get about 1/2 to 3/4 through (albeit slowly) and then finally timeout. - I tried to send a single image using nc as the "server", but had the same problem. - Going through localhost and viewing the web site through a local browser is no problem. - I've searched the mail lists for anything that looks similar, and only came up with the IP Filter tcp connection limit issue (from 4.5) that was addressed in 4.6. I'm not using IP Filter, though, so I don't think that's it. I apologize for the lack of dmesg and kernel files, I will resend tonight from home if anyone would like to see them. Please let me know if anyone would like more information or has any suggestions on other ways to determine the problem. Thanks, Aram To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message