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. --- Dmitry Samersoff, dms@wplus.net, ICQ:3161705 http://devnull.wplus.net * There will come soft rains ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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