From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 20:36:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AE516A4C4 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt19.cluster1.charter.net (remt19.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9873943F75 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:36:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by remt19.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 4724698; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:36:10 -0400 Received: from gforce.johnson.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8R3XBrh096834; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:33:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@gforce.johnson.home) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id h8R3XBl8096816; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:33:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:32:39 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson To: Mike Tancsa Message-ID: <20030927033239.GA68988@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Something is wrong with the fxp network driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 03:36:19 -0000 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