Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 11:02:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin Martin <sigma@pair.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SMC 10/100 network lockup problem Message-ID: <199608091502.LAA20397@alpha.pair.com>
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I've occasionally seen strange behavior from a couple of FreeBSD 2.1.0 machines using SMC 10/100 EtherPower cards on a 10baseT network. About one in every dozen reboots, when the network card is enabled and ifconfig'ed, it creates a packet storm and locks up - you can only clean things up by turning off the misbehaving machine. I've noticed that this does not happen with the plain 10mbps cards, and I don't think I've seen it happen on FreeBSD 2.1.5. Before I make the upgrade on these machines (they're not too important, except when they misbehave), I wanted to see if anyone had seen this kind of behavior and either knew that 2.1.5 is the fix, or that I need some special ifconfig command (ie, "link2"?). Thanks, Kevin Martin sigma@pair.com
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