Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:21:28 +0000 From: Steve Burton <steve@sliderule.demon.co.uk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for hanging of vr interface (Rhine Ethernet) Message-ID: <3E03B408.F9CF6A73@sliderule.demon.co.uk> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20021220151835.03a72a48@marble.sentex.ca> <200212202229.gBKMTREh022639@apollo.backplane.com>
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Hi. In my case using a D-Link card with Rhine II chip, the problem was sometimes apparent when booting but could easily by provoked by FTPing a file from a working FTP server across a 100Base switch. The symptoms; many watchdog timer error logged to the console, the effective FTP bandwidth was only a few kbits per second followed (nearly always) by a complete lock-up of the interface requiring it to be downed with ifconfig and then re-enabled. One one occasion I had to reboot to regain control. Steve. Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :I will gladly test out the patch, but what was the original problem that > :people were having with this NIC ? > : > : ---Mike > > Well, my box is network-booted and nfs mounted. What happened > to me was that everything locked up (e.g. because NFS was > suddenly inoperable). It recovered itself 5 minutes later. > > Right now I'm running torture tests with the patch. No lockups > so far, but I do see an occassional 'vr0: rx packet lost' on > the console (about two dozen so far). I haven't messed around > too much with the BIOS pci parameters yet. Does anyone know > how large vr0's on-chip FIFOs are? > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Steve Burton Webmaster & Sub-optimal Coder To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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