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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:19:10 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Bill Paul <wpaul@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fxp0 hangs on a PC164 using STABLE
Message-ID:  <20000714191910.F346@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007132352490.33645-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:53:56PM -0700
References:  <20000714084332.A8731@cicely8.cicely.de> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007132352490.33645-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:53:56PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> > >From time to time the interface stops sending and receiving packets.
> > Sometimes an ifconfig down and up revives the connection otherwise
> > I need to reboot.
> > The link is still there.
> > Sending packets results in Buffer filled messages.
> > The host is running IPv4 and IPv6.
> > The card is fixed configured to 100/full.
> > STABLE is from 2000-07-08.
> > 
> > I know that the informations I gave here may be not enough.
> > Please feel free to ask me if you have an idea what is valueable.
> > 
> 
> This all very intersting. The last I saw on fxp on alpha was that Andrew
> opened a bug against it not working (months ago) and dg never responded.
> So, I'm surprised it works at all.

For me that means that it must be removed from GENERIC and documented as 
not working in HARDWARE.TXT for 4.1R

Objections?

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 	http://www.freebsd.org  "Do, or do not. There is no try"
wilko@freebsd.org	http://www.nlfug.nl	Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back


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