Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 02:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Josef Belkovics <belkovics@albert.osu.cz> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Josef Belkovics <belkovic@osu.cz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3c509,ep,fbsd3.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905290208040.3641-100000@albert.osu.cz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905281610550.11808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> > I am using fbsd 3.1 as ip+ipx router with 2x3c905 (xl,pci) + 4x3c509 > > (ep,isa) boards. > > Yuck. They do make quad-port PCI Ethernet cards. I don't know if a 66MHz > Pentium can handle those though. PCI cards share irq (5) without problem. (I don't understand well your notice - use penquin english.) > > Ep boards many times stays in the state OACTIVE (tx is idle) which means > > that router does not route. > > Router runs 4 years. Before installation of switches it routes well. > > Systat -vmstat 1 reports that p5/66 has enough capacity. I have raised > > timer tick (HZ=1000) but error has improved only little. I also have raised the number of mbuf on 10240. > > Where is bug? In ep driver or in switches? (Please do not advise to connect > > 3c509 boards back into hubs - it is too late.) > Perhaps the cabling between the swtich and ep0 is faulty? It looks like > the card's getting confused and is resetting itself. Badly. > The ep driver isn't the world's best. Well. I have found in mail archive that 3c509 has the 'stuck in OACTIVE' (kern/6694, kern/7042). There is some patch for if_ep.c? Josef Belkovics To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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