Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/15075: Intel Etherexpress Pro timeouts when >1 card present Message-ID: <199911242050.MAA21695@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/15075; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To: lyndon@bsd4us.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/15075: Intel Etherexpress Pro timeouts when >1 card present
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 14:45:11 -0600 (CST)
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 lyndon@bsd4us.org wrote:
> intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet (one on intel n440bx2
> board, other as PCI expansion). platform is a VAResearch VAR-501,
> dual pIII stepping 2 500mHz, 512mb RAM. When only one card is
> ifconfig'd up and link up, everything is great. try and bring up
> the other card, and within 36 hours both interfaces stop
> responding. error on console:
Interesting. I currently have a large Compaq server with 6 Intel
EtherExpress Pro 10/100 and 1 Dual Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 --
for a total of 8 interfaces -- running 3.3-STABLE (and initally was
running 3.3-RELEASE, as you are) with no problems at all. See my
paragraph below, however.
> server /kernel: fxp1: device timeout
> server /kernel: fxp0: device timeout
> repeatedly until reboot.
> the only kernel changes are as follows:
> maxusers 120 (changed from 32)
> options SMP (uncommented to build SMP)
> options APIC_IO (uncommented to build SMP)
> options NBUS=2 (uncommented to build SMP)
I do recall having some kind of interrupt-related problem which caused
many of the interfaces to stop working when I temporarily added a
second processor to the machine to play with SMP. Try using a non-SMP
kernel and see if that fixes the problem. You may even have to remove
the additional processor(s) entirely to fix the problem. If there
indeed is a problem related to SMP here, I'm sure some of the
developers would love to know about it. Don't ask me though, that
certainly isn't my area of expertise. :-)
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