From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 14 09:10:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2092B16A405 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 09:10:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gray@mistaken-identity.co.uk) Received: from magnum.mistaken-identity.co.uk (slayer-of.demon.co.uk [62.49.5.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A43943D49 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 09:10:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gray@mistaken-identity.co.uk) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 10:08:57 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: vr card issues on 6.1-STABLE thread-index: AcZ3NghW+XGxfWbcRt2/qer2vwTdbw== From: "Gray Lilley" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Graham Lilley Subject: vr card issues on 6.1-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 09:10:34 -0000 Hi List, =20 After a motherboard failure in a machine, I purchased a cheap AXPER motherboard to replace it. The machine is a Socket478 P4 with a Via Rhine onboard NIC. =20 I've read/heard a lot to say "don't use vr cards, they suck" kind of talk - but wanted to go through the official channels to find out if there is anything I can do to resolve my particular issue. =20 Once booted, the machine is contactable locally, can be pinged and can ssh to it. After what appears to be a random amount of time (I have observed between 5 and 30 minutes as of now), the vr0 interface seems to just hang. The machine cannot be pinged, and no services running on the machine are contactable. What is really strange, is that I can still ssh the machine from 'external' to our network (a port forward on a router, straight to the machine) and gain access that way, which tells me the card isn't completely dead. If I then start a ping from the machine to another, suddenly everything springs back to life again and you can ssh the machine internally, and again access all of the services running on it. The only way I have found so far to keep the interface active, is to either a) leave a ping running to one of our servers or b) keep something like 'top' or 'systat' open at all times via an ssh session - which obviously isn't ideal! =20 There is nothing in any logs that I can see. =20 Relevant information; =20 vr0: port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xee002000-0xee0020ff irq 23 at device 18.0 on pci0 =20 FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 13 12:53:33 BST 2006 =20 Kernel is GENERIC with the majority of SCSI/RAID removed. =20 Any ideas/advice would be greatly appreciated. =20 Cheers, =20 Graham Lilley