Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:46:11 -0500 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> To: slava <sl@zeus.dnt.md> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd router with 4mb RAM and two eth. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.10.9905121242130.9459-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990512085751.20023B-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, slava wrote: > I killed cron and syslogd on that machine and I keep only inetd > for telnet. I also have DUMMYNET compiled into the kernel. > I shape the bandwidth for traffic going out to the LAN to 64Kbit/s. > With this configuration the router works ok for a few hours, i can > telnet to it. After some time when I try to telnet again to it > it won't give me a login promt and would stop forwarding the packets > between interfaces at the same moment. It looks like it suffocates. > I can still ping the external ethernet card though. Only a cold reboot > can bring it back to life. > > I guess I will have to try a kernel without dummynet. Could it be because > of the dummynet not being able to work on 4mb RAM? Apologies for entering the conversation mid-stream, but are you using 3Com 3C509 Ethernet cards (using the ep driver)? I have an occasional problem with one of these going mute on a firewall under heavy load. Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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