From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 26 09:40:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22566 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:40:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from seera.nttlabs.com (seera.nttlabs.com [204.162.36.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22410; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gene@nttlabs.com) Received: from nttlabs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by seera.nttlabs.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA28495; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:39:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34CCCA5B.7B5AA8FD@nttlabs.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:39:39 -0800 From: "Eugene M. Kim" Organization: NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hardware FreeBSD ML CC: Current FreeBSD ML , "Eugene M. Kim" Subject: Re: ie0 and EE16 References: <199801201816.MAA24372@compound.east.sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings, Tony Kimball wrote: > > Just FYI, the ie driver consistently fails for me after several days > of use, with an EE16 card. The mode: network activity stops (by the > hub light); no messages are logged; ping returns "sendto: no buffer > space available"; 'ifconfig ie0 down; ifconfig ie0 up' causes ping > to stop reporting errors, but no network activity occurs until reboot. > > Strangely, I've never seen this effect with NFS traffic, only with X, > and specific applications seem to trigger it: Acroread, or netscape, > for example, but not ghostview. My 3COM 3C509-TP ISA card (ep) does, too. The network activity on ep0 stops almost invariably when I use Netscape on another Win95 PC and try to download something big which imposes a load on the network continuously. It also stops when using Acroread. The symptom is exactly the same as Mr. Kimball's one, that is, some programs including ping report that there is no buffer space available, and also ifconfig ep0 shows that OACTIVE attribute is set on the interface; does this ring a bell to anyone? I CC'ed this message to FreeBSD-current mailing list because I had not seen this problem until the world was rebuilt with a recent -current source tree. This problem was first seen about a week ago. Hope this helped and thanks much, Gene -- Eugene M. Kim Software Developer NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories mailto:gene@nttlabs.com