Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:17:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mysterious crashes of FreeBSD gateway -- caugh it(?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960529141455.292B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605281649.TAA07502@office.elvisti.kiev.ua>
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On Tue, 28 May 1996, Andrew V. Stesin wrote: > When a Compex ReadyLink (DEC 21041-based) PCI ethernet was replaced > by a random NE2000, the trouble almost gone -- the box was up for > some days, just Ok. Someone has noted that recent Compex's don't work well with FreeBSD. That may clear up some of your random crashes. > When doing a massive TCP transfers to the 1.1.5-connected subnet, > or even ping -f, a high network load was inspired on a gateway > machine (receive a packet -- forvard it -- send redirect). > NE2000 worked fine, but NCR driver started to through messages > about I/O errors, "NCR dead", etc. Then gateway rebooted itself. I wonder if you have a resource conflict between the NCR and your ethernet card. My NCR may be broke but I had to manually set the IRQ in the PC BIOS. Make sure that the ethernet card and the NCR aren't sharing resources. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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