From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 5 23:43:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (sirius.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B271539D for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 23:43:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu) Received: (wpaul@localhost) by sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (8.9.1/8.6.4.287) id CAA01796; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 02:41:17 -0400 (EDT) From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Message-Id: <199904060641.CAA01796@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: FW: Reveiver stops with MX98713-based 100Mbps Ethernet card To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 02:41:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <000001be7ff6$e9880340$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> from "David Schwartz" at Apr 5, 99 11:30:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, David Schwartz had to walk into mine and say: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Schwartz [mailto:davids@webmaster.com] > Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 12:14 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Reveiver stops with MX98713-based 100Mbps Ethernet card > > > > I'm running 3.1-STABLE, current as of last night. No no no. Stop it right there. This is only part of what you should have said. You say 'current as of last night' but you don't say what you were running before last night. Did the problem actually start last night? If not, when did it start? When was the last time that it worked correctly? The idea here is to give me some idea when the problem started so that I can try to isolate a particular change that may have caused the trouble. I can't do that based on this tiny bit of information. > What happens is that > anytime the Ethernet card gets really flooded with incoming packets (for > example, if you FTP a 4Mb file from another machine on a local fast > ethernet), the receiver simply stops receiving. If you do netstat -in, do you see any input errors? Is the NIC connected to a hub (repeater) or a switch? Is it running at 10Mbps or 100Mbps? Full duplex or half? (If it's a repeater it better be half.) > If it helps, the card is an SVEC PN102TX (early version). The later > versions of this same card used the MX98715, I think. Mine's a 98713. What kind of machine is it? CPU type? Speed? Intel or AMD? > Any clues? You're supposed to give me the clues. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "Mulder, toads just fell from the sky!" "I guess their parachutes didn't open." ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message