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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:12:53 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Samersoff <dms@wplus.net>
To:        Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: 3.2 and 3com
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990921111253.dms@wplus.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990920193031.vev@michvhf.com>

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On 20-Sep-99 Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> 
> I have an odd one going on.  In the last couple of weeks we installed 3.2
> (from the CDs) on 7 machines.  5 were new pIII-450's ASUS MB with 3C905
> PCI network cards, two are older Pentium 150's with 3C509B's - ISA,  all 
> with 128MB ram.  All power management stuff is turned off in BIOS.  These
> machines, if left alone with no traffic, will seem to drop off the network.
> No ping, no telnet, no ssh.  If you walk up to the console you can log in 
> and ping anywhere you want and suddenly you can get in from outside again.
> It's like it was woke up.  It also wakes up if a cronjob sends mail.  Right
> now I have open pings running to a couple of the machines to keep them
> awake.  The only things these machines seem to have in common are: 10base-t, 
> FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, 128MB Ram and a Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch.  
> 
> Anyone seen this before or have any ideas?

Looks like IRQ problem ...

Is all plug-play-cry possibility (BIOS and 3C5x9 setup) disabled and 3C5x9 IRQ
marked as reserved for ISA in BIOS? 

Try to set IRQ to Free's 3C5x9 driver explicitly.

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Dmitry Samersoff, dms@wplus.net, ICQ:3161705
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