Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:34:50 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Lord Raiden <me@raiden.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Epia 800 and Freebsd 5.3 Message-ID: <430F6EDA.8020707@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20050826104115.00a43b60@192.168.0.25> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20050826104115.00a43b60@192.168.0.25>
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Lord Raiden wrote: > Just installed 5.3 onto an Epia 800 just a few weeks back and aside from > the controlers being bloody picky as hell (got that fixed by using > special cables), the stupid lan card is now giving me fits just a day > after I put it into active service. Here's the error I'm getting in my > logs repeatedly. > > > vr0: rx packet lost > > vr0: watchdog timeout Yeah, I've seen that network flakyness with vr0 on my EPIA M8000 (or whatever the model number is). Using a really good cable and a switch port seems to help, and the VIA Rhine NIC seems OK for low traffic, but I'm still using a 300MHz old P2 Dell box with an fxp0 rather than my EPIA as a local proxy server as I had wanted to do. -- -Chuck PS: I'm giving some thought to getting a Mac Mini instead. The EPIA case I've got is reasonably small, 11" x ~24" x 4", but a Mini is 6.5" x 6.5" x 2"...!
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