From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 02:21:56 2004 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 51E4916A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 02:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from telecom.net.et (sparrow.telecom.net.et [213.55.64.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B44C43D48 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 02:21:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtm@identd.net) Received: from [213.55.69.240] (HELO pool-151-200-10-97.res.east.verizon.net) by telecom.net.et (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 38198715; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:15:37 +0300 Received: from mobile.acs-et.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) ESMTP id i23AJXFx000996; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:19:56 +0300 (EAT) (envelope-from mtm@mobile.acs-et.com) Received: (from mtm@localhost) by mobile.acs-et.com (8.12.11/8.12.10/Submit) id i22H39dm017180; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:03:09 +0300 (EAT) (envelope-from mtm) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:03:09 +0300 From: Mike Makonnen To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040302170309.GB17097@mobile.acs-et.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/5.2-CURRENT (i386) cc: Duncan Barclay Subject: Re: if_bfe hangs? 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: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:21:56 -0000 Message: 27 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:19:05 -0000 From: "Duncan Barclay" Subject: Re: if_bfe hangs? To: "Daniel O'Connor" , Message-ID: <020501c3ffdb$355a31d0$43c8a8c0@orac> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" ______________________________________________________________________ > 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. ____________________________________________________________________ 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. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | Fingerprint: AC7B 5672 2D11 F4D0 EBF8 5279 5359 2B82 7CD4 1F55 mtm@FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - Unleash the Daemon !