From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 11 12:20:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2764537B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from samuelstn.dyndns.org (h24-64-81-248.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.81.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79D4143E6A for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyschow@shaw.ca) Received: (qmail 84405 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2002 19:20:21 -0000 Received: from celeron (192.168.1.6) by homeserver with SMTP; 11 Aug 2002 19:20:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:20:21 -0600 From: Samuel Chow To: "Robin Damm" , gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flaky NFS over Via Rhine based LAN cards Message-Id: <20020811132021.4e87533d.cyschow@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020811155409.GA21484@lulu.wp.shawcable.net> References: <1976128765.20020811142621@buz.ch> <20020811155409.GA21484@lulu.wp.shawcable.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 10:54:10 -0500 "Robin Damm" wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:26:21PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm experiencing very flaky (=unusable) NFS over two Via Rhine based > > DLink cards connected through a cross over cable. It is either a card > > or a driver issue as NFS works perfectly over the public interfaces of > > the boxes (Realtek connected to a 3com Switch) so I'd be interested to > > hear about other people's experience with that card/driver and NFS. If > > it's really due to the Rhine chips and can't be fixed, I'll throw the > > cards out, of course, but before I do that, I'd like to know whether > > there might be a software solution to this... > > Same problem here when using nfs or large ftp xfers. I suspect it is > a driver issue as the cards work fine under Win32. As a workaround I > mount nfs with the "-r=1024" switch, see "man mount_nfs". This is > stable enough for running "make installworld" via nfs and the like > here. > > As a solution I placed the vr card on the public interface > (less throughput) with the intention of junking the vr cards later. > > Do tell if you come up with something more elegant. I just got two DLink DFE-530TX that use the vr driver on -STABLE sup'ed Aug 6. I have been doing installworld and portupgrade on them with no problem. I do have a switchm though. --- Samuel Chow cyschow@shaw.ca Segmentation Fault (core dumped) This message is displayed using recycled electrons. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message