Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:30:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, jgreco@solaria.sol.net Subject: kern/7766: de driver still buggy - random ifc death Message-ID: <199808280330.WAA07044@aurora.sol.net>
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>Number: 7766
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: de driver still buggy - random ifc death
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 27 20:40:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Joe Greco
>Organization:
sol.net Network Services - Solaria Public Access UNIX
>Release: FreeBSD 3.*
>Environment:
ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D, 2xIntel P200 (or P133)
512MB RAM
3 x ASUS SC-200 PCI SCSI
1 x SMC 8434BDT dual 10/100 PCI Ethernet, 100mbps half duplex
Usually running Diablo
Ethernets plugged into one of:
3Com OfficeStack 10/100 (old or new)
Bay Networks 350F
Synoptics 20115(?)
>Description:
A network interface stops working. The interface becomes un-pingable and
unresponsive. The rest of the system remains functional.
This appears to happen every two to five days. These motherboards and
CPU's were previously used under a slightly different configuration under
FreeBSD 2.1.7R, Matt Thomas's version of the de driver, with a single
P133 and {256|384}MB RAM, rest of configuration identical, with uptimes
in the two hundred day range.
This may be a hardware problem of some sort. I experienced the _same_
problem with a much higher frequency under Solaris 2.6 x86 (SMP) on the
same hardware, where it happened every six to eight hours.
I believe that I may have seen this same problem, once, on an ASUS
P2B-DS system as well.
See my next report for a possibly related bug.
>How-To-Repeat:
Unknown
>Fix:
Reset box, or
ifconfig <ifc> down; ifconfig <ifc> up
(I can usually log in via the other interface, which is on a private
network)
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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