Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 08:14:13 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Kevin Martin <sigma@pair.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMC 10/100 network lockup problem Message-ID: <199608091514.IAA00764@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Aug 1996 11:02:20 EDT." <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"?). There is a bug in the auto speed detection code that causes it to select the wrong speed. You can work around this by using the 'link2' flag to set the appropriate mode. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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