From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 1:50:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gandalf.admaster.de (gandalf.admaster.de [193.149.59.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9AAA37B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from larry@localhost) by gandalf.admaster.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) id KAA26551; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:50:04 +0200 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:50:04 +0200 From: Dirk Rodemer To: Caleb Walker Cc: Trevor Daniel Kramer , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: [Urgent] 3Com 3C90X Cards not Compatible? Message-ID: <20000906105004.A26393@admaster.de> References: <00090119104202.00263@butthead.walker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <00090119104202.00263@butthead.walker>; from Caleb Walker on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:09:38PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:09:38PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > All I have ever used since 3.4 is two 3Com 3C905b's with never a > single problem. I experienced this problem with 3Com 3C905c cards. There were reboots when network traffic was above a certain level. I changed back to 3C905b cards and now all works well. -Dirk > > On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Trevor Daniel Kramer wrote: > > I have also seen this problem with a 3Com90X. I am running 4.1 STABLE. > > > > Trevor > > > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > > What version of FreeBSD is this? > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > > > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > > > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > > > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > > > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > > > ================================================================= > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 freebsd@alcatraz.wolfpaw.net wrote: > > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > Recently I changed the ethernet cards in our gateway from 2 D-Link > > > > 538TX's to 2 3Com 3C90X's don't remember which one, the 100BaseTX full > > > > duplex ones (509b maybe?). Anyway, when we had the D-Link cards in the > > > > machine, all was good - no problems. Yesterday I added the 2 3Com cards > > > > and now it will just reboot - with no notice - spontainiosly. Its not a > > > > huge issue, but it causes intermittant 2 minute network failures, which is > > > > just really teally annoying. There are no system logs to show the reboot, > > > > and it doesn't even stop to dismount the drives, which is > > > > worrisome. Anyone have any ideas on why this might be occuring? or > > > > how I can find out? Ive tried fstat (as we had another FreeBSD server > > > > crash from a crond prog that left open files everywhere) and it doesn't > > > > seem to show any problems. > > > > > > > > Thanks in Advance :) > > > > Dale > > > > Sysadmin, Wolfpaw.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- > > Thank You, > Caleb Walker > (310) 519-8359 > (310) 753-8668 > http://www.cwalk.org > Get my pgp public key by fingering cwalker@cwalk.org > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > MessageID: hHur7LO73Slt1twvIPyR/EOCJ9eNzUBx > > iQA/AwUBObBhouePhvvqImYFEQJUfgCfWiatUZe4s55NbsemiPE1abg7C8kAn0Zr > RZEtVGxBD+QeT/1sejqy6J2C > =cqcb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Dirk Rodemer http://www.admaster.de software engineer admaster network Tel. +49 89 383856 93 Kaiserstr. 16 D-80801 Muenchen mailto:dr@admaster.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message