Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:22:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Josef Belkovics <belkovics@albert.osu.cz> Cc: Josef Belkovics <belkovic@osu.cz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3c509,ep,fbsd3.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905312117390.4498-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905290208040.3641-100000@albert.osu.cz>
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On Sat, 29 May 1999, Josef Belkovics wrote: > > > I am using fbsd 3.1 as ip+ipx router with 2x3c905 (xl,pci) + 4x3c509 > > > (ep,isa) boards. > > > > Yuck. They do make quad-port PCI Ethernet cards. I don't know if a 66MHz > > Pentium can handle those though. > > PCI cards share irq (5) without problem. (I don't understand well your > notice - use penquin english.) I was suggesting that you dump your existing cards and buy 4 port Znyx PCI cards. This way, you get 8 ports on two cards with a proven driver. > > > Ep boards many times stays in the state OACTIVE (tx is idle) which means > > > that router does not route. > > > > Router runs 4 years. Before installation of switches it routes well. > > > Systat -vmstat 1 reports that p5/66 has enough capacity. I have raised > > > timer tick (HZ=1000) but error has improved only little. > > I also have raised the number of mbuf on 10240. I doubt this has anything to do with it, but I assume you've done this since you've gotten the omnious 'out of mbufs' panic or know how to read netstat -m. > > > Where is bug? In ep driver or in switches? (Please do not advise to connect > > > 3c509 boards back into hubs - it is too late.) > > > Perhaps the cabling between the swtich and ep0 is faulty? It looks like > > the card's getting confused and is resetting itself. > > Badly. Have you checked that cable? It's wierd that only one card is frying. > > The ep driver isn't the world's best. > > Well. I have found in mail archive that 3c509 has the 'stuck in OACTIVE' > (kern/6694, kern/7042). There is some patch for if_ep.c? Not unless it was attached to the PR. Oh well, at least ISA dies with all the 386s and 486s after Y2K. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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