Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:56:44 -0500 From: "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org> To: Jeff Racine <jracine@maxwell.syr.edu> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC related problems on amd64... Message-ID: <4077464C.1050901@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <32A8B2CB12BFC84D8D11D872C787AA9A015E9AB5@EXCHANGE.forest.maxwell.syr.edu> References: <32A8B2CB12BFC84D8D11D872C787AA9A015E9AB5@EXCHANGE.forest.maxwell.syr.edu>
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Jeff Racine wrote: >Hi. > >I am setting up a dual opteron box, and have experienced problems that I can't seem to track down. I installed 5.2.1 from cd and the problem appeared righ away when I tried to rsync the new hd with my laptop hd, upgraded to current and it is still there. > >The symptoms are that rsync and the amd64-friendly cvsup, when used, appear to crash the nic interface (and it is repeatable). It seems to be some combination of small files and/or disk write activity. However, sftp and ftp appear to work fine (I have to cvsup ports on my laptop then tar and transfer to get ports current). Once crashed, only a reboot appears to cure the problem (ifconfig sk0 xxxx netstat xxx etc. does not work, nor does /etc/netstart). The system has a 3ware escalade sata 8000 series raid controller in raid 1 configuration. > > You might be more specific about the motherboard, model, CPU model, DRAM, etc, disk system configuration and especially what "crash the nic interface" means. I've never had a NIC problem but I use a Tyan S2885 which uses the bge NIC inteface. I don't recall any pattern of bug reports with NICs in the past..
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