Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:17:11 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua, questions@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mysterious crashes of FreeBSD gateway -- caugh it(?) Message-ID: <199605301017.NAA16958@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960529141455.292B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at May 29, 96 02:17:28 pm
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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. Yes, indeed. Compex ReadyLink Rev. D1 worked (and still works) perfectly; Rev.D2 -- problems... # > 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. I doubt. Ether (NE2000) is on ISA port 0x280 irq 5 -- nothing even close to NCR. # My NCR may be broke but I had to manually set the IRQ in # the PC BIOS. Yes, I do it always by hand (NCR uses a jumper-settable PCI INT, by default -- INT A. I don't know details, but from my experience it's wise to set NCR's PCI slot to use INT A manually; problems otherwise). # Make sure that the ethernet card and the NCR aren't sharing # resources. Is it possible at all? # # Doug White | University of Oregon # Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant # http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major # -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.
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