From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 4 14:56:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glow.binity.net (glow.binity.net [213.84.201.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5946E37B405 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 14:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vscan (glow.dt1.binity.net [172.23.18.1]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F0755D5; Sat, 4 May 2002 23:57:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from silver.dt1.binity.net (silver.dt1.binity.net [172.23.3.20]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB68548A; Sat, 4 May 2002 23:56:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 23:56:53 +0200 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Educational X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <16632662726.20020504235653@binity.com> To: Axel Scheepers Cc: Rob King , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Possible bug in miibus, fxp, and xl? In-Reply-To: <20020504203129.I13115@mars.thuis> References: <3CD2E8D1.1040100@wholefoods.com> <20020504203129.I13115@mars.thuis> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by glow.binity.net (amavis-perl-11-sky2) 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 [in reply to axel@axel.truedestiny.net, 04-05-2002] >> I'm running 4.5-RELEASE, i386 on a Dell server box. The machine >> keeps locking up whenever I do large network transfers. At first I >> thought it was a problem with the on-motherboard ethernet card (xl0), >> but when I put an fxp-driven card in, and removed kernel support for >> xl0, it still locks up on large network transfers. I have experienced this with a certain newer batch of fxp's - They all caused sudden lockups or reboots (no panics) with a large network load; this seemed to be the case especially when the fxp was combined with certain other hardware such as an ahc SCSI controller (although they did not share any resources..) Stresstesting a test machine yielded a reboot within the hour. The same setup with a D-LINK network card (ste device) withstood the same stress test (a lot of bzip2'ing over NFS and packetflooding) without problems. Overall the D-LINK card was a very nice experience; if you can't find the source of your problems, you could try one of those. -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24452020 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message