From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jun 9 23:25:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA26162 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 23:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26145 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 23:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) with ESMTP id BAA14870; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 01:01:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id AAA11065; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:25:05 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199606100625.AAA11065@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...? To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:25:04 -0600 (MDT) Cc: isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606100116.SAA16312@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jun 9, 96 06:16:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, David Greenman once said: > There aren't any known bugs in the driver, but the 82557 chip (the NIC) has > a bug that causes it to "go away" when it sees any garbage data. There is a > "work around" that basically amounts to resetting the chip if you don't see > any traffic in seconds. I think this is pretty disgusting, however, so I > didn't implement it. The newer revision chips are supposed to have this > problem fixed. Too much fun. :) Will downing the interface and bringing it back up reset the chip properly, or is there a different system call we'd have to make to do it? (If so, give me a pointer, and I'll happily come up with a reset-the-chip utility). -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."