From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 20 16:21:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0872A37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7095443EE6 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:21:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@sliderule.demon.co.uk) Received: from sliderule.demon.co.uk ([80.177.21.188]) by anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18PXOT-0007if-0U; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:21:29 +0000 Message-ID: <3E03B408.F9CF6A73@sliderule.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:21:28 +0000 From: Steve Burton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Mike Tancsa , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for hanging of vr interface (Rhine Ethernet) References: <5.2.0.9.0.20021220151835.03a72a48@marble.sentex.ca> <200212202229.gBKMTREh022639@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > 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