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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:46:07 -0400
From:      Ken Lam <klam@awod.com>
To:        Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
Cc:        root@edmweb.com, isp@freebsd.org, taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Subject:   Re: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...?
Message-ID:  <1.5.4.32.19960611014607.00738448@awod.com>

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At 02:42 PM 6/9/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Lo and behold, Brian Tao once said:
>
>>     Yup... many times under 2.1.0R and only once so far with
>> 2.2-960501.
>
>  Here's another once under -stable.
>
>> > The machine is a 16-meg Pentium 100 with Asus Triton motherboard and
>> > SCSI-II hard drive on an Adaptec 2940. The ethernet card is an SMC
>> > EtherPower 10/100 in 10 mbps (standard ethernet) mode.
>> 
>>     The odd thing here is that only one machine here (that I know of)
>> exhibits this behaviour.  It is a 486DX4/100, ASUS P/I-486SP3G
>> motherboard with 32MB RAM and the same EtherPower card, running at 10 Mbps.
>> We have a dozen other P133 servers with the same model of SMC's and
>
>   The machine of ours that hung is a P100, triton, 2 adaptec 2940s, and 
>an Intel EtherExpress 10/100 running at 10Mbps.
>
>    I think I smell a common feature -- we're all using the fxp0 driver.  
>This server never exhibited this before I dropped in the EtherExpress.  
>Are there any known bugs in the driver?  (I would assume not).

Not a fxp0 driver problem.  I have similar problems using the SMC ETh10/100
with Digital chipset.  I'm running 2.1R and have these problems.  I will 
be supping to current (6/8) which seems to be stable on another test server.

Beyond just not reaching any other local nodes, I have occasions where I can
only reach some nodes on our LAN.  We have lots of proxy-arps from our xyplex
terminal servers.  On average, over 200 arp entries.  I patched for some of
the proxy-arp bugs, but still have similar problems.

-ken





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