Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:16:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: jarekb@pap.waw.pl (Jaroslaw Bazydlo) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Amount@cergowa.pap.waw.pl, of@cergowa.pap.waw.pl, RAM@cergowa.pap.waw.pl, &@cergowa.pap.waw.pl, FreeBSD@cergowa.pap.waw.pl, as@cergowa.pap.waw.pl, Ethernet@cergowa.pap.waw.pl, router@cergowa.pap.waw.pl Subject: Problems with multiple Ethernet boards (was: Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <199610011416.QAA21884@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199609301140.NAA23668@cergowa.pap.waw.pl> from "Jaroslaw Bazydlo" at Sep 30, 96 01:40:10 pm
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Jaroslaw Bazydlo writes: > > Situation: > > FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE / 8M RAM and 32M of swap / 5 Ethernet Cards / > IP Filter 3.1.0 run in the system > > This computer acts as a Ethernet router w/o problems but sometimes it hangs > up for a couple o secconds. I logfile I can see "ed2: device timeout" in > those moments. This could point to hardware problems. Ok I'll try to replace > it with the new one but... You'd probably get more answers if you had selected a subject line like "Problems with multiple Ethernet boards" > Does anyone know how to judge how much memory I need according to number o > Ethernet Cards (all are 10BaseT, UTP 10Mbit/s) ???? I don't think they're a significant factor. I suppose that 8 MB of RAM is not exactly too much, but I don't think that that's the problem. I've run routers (one Ethernet board, one ISDN board) in 4 MB, and didn't have any memory pressure. I don't expect the additional boards to make any difference. I'd guess that you might have a driver problem. Which boards are you using? Greg
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