From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 7 17:46:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zeus.foote.com.au (zeus.foote.com.au [203.32.153.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8D837B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.foote.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f081kEv72723; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:16:14 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from chris@zeus.foote.com.au) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:16:14 +1030 (CST) From: Chris Foote X-X-Sender: To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? In-Reply-To: <128310000.978895262@grolsch.ai> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > I noticed my problem when I tried to upgrade the 4.0-STABLE box with an NFS > installworld. It would consistently hang after a short while. Further > investigation showed that *every* TCP connection to or from this box stalls > after transferring somewhere between 1MB and 20MB of data. (Tested with > NFS, scp, etc). As the machine is handling small transactions most of the > time I hadn't noticed this, until now :-( > > > > My tentative conclusion is that the Intel NICs don't work with my hub, even > though they should. As my hub seems to work with other cards, I'm > suspecting an Intel PRO/100+ specific problem. I can't determine whether it > is a hardware or a software problem though :-( These symptoms sound like they're caused by duplex mismatch problems. Try forcing half or full-duplex options and test again - i.e. use media and mediaopt flags in your /etc/rc.conf. Available values for these are in `man fxp`. Chris Foote SE Net Technical Manager 222 Grote Street SE Network Access Adelaide SA 5000 e-mail chris@senet.com.au Australia phone : (08) 8221 5221 PGP Public Key available from fax: (08) 8221 5220 http://www.senet.com.au/PGP support: (08) 8221 5792 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message