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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:03:09 +0300
From:      Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org>
Subject:   Re: if_bfe hangs?
Message-ID:  <20040302170309.GB17097@mobile.acs-et.com>

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:19:05 -0000                                                                                                                                                                 
From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@dmlb.org>                                                                                                                                                               
Subject: Re: if_bfe hangs?                                                                                                                                                                           
To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>,                                                                                                                                                       
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> Hi,                                                                                                                                                                                                
> I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 which has the Broadcom BCM4401 ethernet                                                                                                                                
controller
> in it, so I am using if_bfe. Mostly it seems to work, but just recently I                                                                                                                          
> visted a friend who had a 10Mbit hub and I could reliably get my entire                                                                                                                            
> system to wedge if I did even a small amount of network activity..                                                                                                                                 
>                                                                                                                                                                                                    
> Has anyone had a similar experience? I have a 10Mbit hub at work so I                                                                                                                              
might
> see if it's repeatable, but it's a solid hang (can't break into debugger)                                                                                                                          
so
> it might be difficult to debug :(                                                                                                                                                                  

A couple of people have mentioned this, but I haven't seen it.

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I've found that my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop, which also uses the same
chip, usually hangs when working with bad network cables. Otherwise,
it works fine in 100BaseTX or 10BaseT.

Cheers.
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