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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 1997 09:05:57 -0500
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS problems with 2.2.1R
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970404090548.006b121c@etinc.com>

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At 12:40 AM 4/4/97 +0100, you wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, dennis wrote:
>
>> 
>> I've concluded that the problems that I've been having are *not* due to
>> a buggy de driver but NFS. I have the same symptoms on a totally 
>> different machine with an ne2000 card as I had with the de PCI
>> card.
>> 
>> My server is a 2.1.6R box which has been reliably been working for
>> quite some time (previously with 2.1.5 of course). When loading
>> 2.2.1R via NFS, it  consistantly hangs loading bin, however not
>> in the same place. The system completely hangs (ie alt-F keys 
>> do not work, cant ctl-alt-del...).
>> 
>> Anyone with any ideas on how to get around this? I loaded 2.2R
>> without incident on the same hardware.
>
>When the system is hung, is there any net traffic?  I just fixed a bug in
>current which caused it to loop, continually re-reading the same directory
>block.  This is really obvious when you use tcpdump.  I can make a patch
>for this specific problem against 2.2 but I don't (yet) have a 2.2 machine
>to test.

No, there is no network traffic.  I have a LAN monitor on the network and the
server sends a window of frames that do not get ack'd by the hung machine.

As this is occurring with the boot floppy I'm not able to do much diagnosis :(

Dennis
>
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>Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
>Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
>
>
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