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From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
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Subject: Re: fxp0: device timeout - reboot required
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sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> 
> > I've seen it happen twice in a weeks time on our server, that
> > has always been rock stable before:
> >
> > fxp0: device timeout   (many many times, repeated in syslog)
> >
> > The machine does not answer to ping.
> 
> I see you're using the fxp driver in combination with the ncr driver.
> Have you considered using the sym driver instead? That has cured a
> number of stability problems for us.

Hi Steinar,

No, I haven't considered that. I will, when upgrading to
fbsd-4. It seems that the sym driver is not available before
release-4.0. :(

Thanks for input anyway!

Cheers,
Palle


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