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Date:      Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:27:16 +0600
From:      Alexander <arap@oduurl.ru>
To:        Ben Hacker Jr <strbenjr@yahoo.com>
Cc:        list DC-FBSD <fug-washdc@Sytex.Net>, questions FBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Stable FBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ben Hacker Jr <bhacker1@csc.com>
Subject:   Re: Router "ep2" issue
Message-ID:  <398A3814.FF8C39F6@oduurl.ru>
References:  <20000803210513.11627.qmail@web4502.mail.yahoo.com>

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Ben Hacker Jr wrote:
> 
> Hello all...
> 
> I built a router about six months back and it has been
> 
> working pretty good except that sometimes I will lose
> connectivity to the subnet on one of the ports (ep2).
> 
> I lost connectivity again today and tried to figure
> out what
> was going wrong.  I don't know how to tell if it is
> caused
> by hardware or my configuration.

Same problem with "ep" drivers:
- 4x3com579(EISA) in i486DX50
- 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD
- cured "ifconfig down/up"
I suppose a ethernet problems
Problems disapear when I disconnect new station with unnamed network
card

> 
>                                10Mb      100Mb
>                               +---------------+
>               10.44.17.062/27=|ep0 FreeBSD    |
>               10.44.17.126/27=|ep1 Router
> xl0|=10.44.25.250/30
>               10.44.17.222/27=|ep2            |
>                               +---------------+
> me@FBSD_Router1$ uname -a
> FreeBSD FBSD_Router1 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #2:
> Fri Mar 17 11
> :42:33 EST 2000
> me@FBSD_Router1:/usr/src/sys/compile/Router1-4  i386
> me@FBSD_Router1$
> 
>      network_interfaces="xl0 ep2 ep1 ep0 lo0"
>      ifconfig_xl0="inet  10.44.25.250    netmask
> 255.255.255.252"
>      ifconfig_ep2="inet  10.44.17.222    netmask
> 255.255.255.224"
>      ifconfig_ep1="inet  10.44.17.126    netmask
> 255.255.255.224"
>      ifconfig_ep0="inet  10.44.17.62     netmask
> 255.255.255.224"
>      defaultrouter="10.44.25.249"
> 
> After logging into the router from the ep1 subnet I
> tried to ping
> out to all the subnets.  The results are listed below:
> 
> me@FBSD_Router1$ ping 10.44.17.38
> PING 10.44.17.38 (10.44.17.38): 56 data bytes
>        VIA ep0
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.38: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128
> time=1.114 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.38: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128
> time=0.645 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.38: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128
> time=0.594 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.38: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128
> time=0.596 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.38: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128
> time=0.617 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.38: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128
> time=0.611 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.38: icmp_seq=6 ttl=128
> time=0.613 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.38: icmp_seq=7 ttl=128
> time=0.608 ms
> 
> me@FBSD_Router1$ ping 10.44.17.105
> PING 10.44.17.105 (10.44.17.105): 56 data bytes
>        VIA ep1
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.105: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128
> time=0.722 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.105: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128
> time=0.600 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.105: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128
> time=0.587 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.105: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128
> time=0.610 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.105: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128
> time=0.578 ms
> 
> me@FBSD_Router1$ ping 10.44.17.200
>        VIA ep2
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available   (Apparently
> this is the problem.)
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> 
> me@FBSD_Router1$ ping 10.44.12.150
> PING 10.44.12.150 (10.44.12.150): 56 data bytes
>        VIA xl0
> 64 bytes from 10.44.12.150: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254
> time=1.629 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.12.150: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254
> time=1.754 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.12.150: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254
> time=1.665 ms
> 
> I had found in the past that if I down the adapter ep2
> and brought
> it back up again the communications would resume so
> that is what
> the shellscript "updown2" does.
> 
> me@FBSD_Router1$ su root -c updown2
> Password:
> ep2: flags=8c02<BROADCAST,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> mtu 1500
>         inet 10.44.17.222 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast
> 10.44.17.223
>         inet 10.54.17.222 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast
> 10.54.17.223
>         ether 00:a0:24:23:70:cc
> ep2:
> flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
> 1500
>         inet 10.44.17.222 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast
> 10.44.17.223
>         inet 10.54.17.222 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast
> 10.54.17.223
>         ether 00:a0:24:23:70:cc
> 
> Once I bring the adapter down and back up again it
> apparently
> functions fine (for a while at least. See below.)
> What should I
> do now??
> Replace the adapter?
> Make some configuration change for that adapter in my
> Kernel?
> Update to v3.5?  (The last time I cvsup'ed was prior
> to the
> router going online for real work.)
> Or... What other config file do you want to see?
> 
> me@FBSD_Router1$ ping 10.44.17.200
> PING 10.44.17.200 (10.44.17.200): 56 data bytes
>        VIA ep2
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.200: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128
> time=0.641 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.200: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128
> time=0.588 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.200: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128
> time=0.568 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.200: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128
> time=0.591 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.200: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128
> time=0.575 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.44.17.200: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128
> time=0.566 ms
> ^C
> --- 10.44.17.200 ping statistics ---
> 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet
> loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev =
> 0.566/0.588/0.641/0.025 ms
> me@FBSD_Router1$
> 
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