Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:32:39 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Something is wrong with the fxp network driver Message-ID: <20030927033239.GA68988@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <t3l9nvck0549g7n38tpeb6bu6anajuc73i@4ax.com> References: <mailman.1064594460.43592.fcurrent-l@lists.sentex.ca> <t3l9nvck0549g7n38tpeb6bu6anajuc73i@4ax.com>
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:07:38PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Are they Tyan motherboards by chance ? There was a thread in stable > about this a few weeks ago. The problems seem specific to those > motherboards. Someone posted a potential workaround as well. No, five of them are MSI dual Athlon-MP boards (can not remember the exact model and am not near the machines now), and one is an Epox Athlon-XP board. The five MSI boards are using a built-in LAN interface and the Epox is using a PCI card. I do have some machines with Tyan motherboards but they have 3Com xl interfaces in them. > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:40:08 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current > you wrote: > > >I am having a problem with recent builds of -current with the fxp > >driver. A couple of days ago, the 6 machines in my cluster with fxp > >interfaces all died at about the same time with fxp timeout errors. > >The machines with 3Com xl interfaces kept on going. Today, I am > >observing that the throughput is about half of what I am seeing on my > >machines with a 3Com xl interface. Is anybody else observing this? > >What other information do I need to provide? > > > >Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson
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