Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:56:11 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Edvard Fagerholm <desti@sigtrap.com> Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? Message-ID: <20010112155611.T91029@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3A599400.A5A0CAE1@sigtrap.com>; from desti@sigtrap.com on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:18:40AM %2B0000 References: <295980000.978920074@grolsch.ai> <3A599400.A5A0CAE1@sigtrap.com>
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On 2001-Jan-08 10:18:40 +0000, Edvard Fagerholm <desti@sigtrap.com> wrote: >> The other cards connected to the hub are a mixture of 10 and 100 cards >> (3Com 905B, LinkSys LNE100TX, 3Com 509). All of these work fine. > >Funny, as I've got a quite similar problem. During high network >throughput (about 50mbit/s) one of my boxes just dies. This is why it >always crashes when doing backups and I had to put the backup computer >to 10mbit half-duplex mode to get it work... Just to add a further data-point: I have a Dell OptiPlex GXi (Pentium-133 with 96MB RAM) that had 3 genuine PRO/100+ cards. It used to regularly lock up (to the point where NMI had no effect) under load (disk+network+CPU). Replacing the PRO/100+ associated with the multiplexed interrupt with a DEC DE500 (21143) solved the problem. I initially ran into the problem with 3.4-STABLE last February. I can't recall if I re-checked after I installed 4.x on the machine. I wound up switching to feeding all the relevant networks via a VLAN trunk into a single PRO/100+ and haven't had any problems since. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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