Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 01:29:40 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Neil McGann <neil@neilmcgann.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sis NIC problem Message-ID: <20021025012940.A63009@carp.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <2261.192.168.0.23.1035534390.squirrel@www.neilmcgann.co.uk>; from neil@neilmcgann.co.uk on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:26:30AM %2B0100 References: <2261.192.168.0.23.1035534390.squirrel@www.neilmcgann.co.uk>
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known problem with watchdog handling on several network drivers including the "sis". This has been fixed in some drivers (including the "sis') some time ago, surely in 4.7 and probably also in 4.6 cheers luigi On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:26:30AM +0100, Neil McGann wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got a couple of Netgear FA311 NICs (sis driver) in a low-traffic > server/router/firewall that has been running fbsd4.4-R (with security > updates) for a year or so. > > I occasionally lose all network connectivity on my inside nic (sis1). THis > usually follows a large data transfer from the server (100Mbit, full > duplex). What I see is that from the server console I can ping the nic IP > (192.168.0.1), but everything else on that subnet is unreachable. The > routing tables are fine and if I do "ifconfig sis1 down" then "ifconfig > sis1 up" all is well again. (note that when I do ifconfig down I can't > ping the nic IP) > > I get no error messages or clues - The NIC thinks it is "UP" and no > errors. There are no interrupt conflicts or anything but 2 NICs on the PCI > bus (it's a micro-atx motherboard with integrated graphics, 1G Celeron and > 256M ram). > > Anyone got any suggestions of where to start on this one? I'm going to try > a full upgrade to 4.7 when I get a free day to take the server down, but > it's not going to be soon. > > [The only non-standard thing on this machine is that I've hacked the ata > driver to only let the disks go to UDMA66. At UDMA100 the network > throughput was slow and limiting the UDMA top speed fixed it.] > > Neil > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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