Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:26:04 -0400 From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com> To: "Drew Sanford" <drew@planetwe.com>, "Isaac Waldron" <iwaldron@WPI.EDU> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Netgear cards randomly dying? Message-ID: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPEEPBCEAA.otterr@telocity.com> In-Reply-To: <39DCBF55.2506EE34@planetwe.com>
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Brownouts are a good place to start looking. As a side note, I've got
the same NIC on my NAT box for my internal LAN from -stable updated on
10/1/00 and it's been no problem here.
<copy/paste>
kashmir% /sbin/ifconfig dc0
dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:a0:cc:65:da:4e
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP none
kashmir% uname -a
FreeBSD kashmir.telocity.com 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #2: Sun
Oct 1 14:45:41 GMT 2000
otterr@kashmir.telocity.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/kashmir i386
kashmir% uptime
6:23PM up 4 days, 2:19, 1 user, load averages: 1.00, 1.01, 1.00
-Otter
}-----Original Message-----
}From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
}[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Drew Sanford
}Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 1:50 PM
}To: Isaac Waldron
}Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
}Subject: Re: Netgear cards randomly dying?
}
}
}I've seen this happen twice with this type of card on a
}Linux box, but
}never under FreeBSD. The problem with the linux box appears to be
}related to brownouts - since I put the system on a UPS I haven't see
}this problem. It was exactly as you describe. The lights
}would dim, and
}it would simply cease to function. Upon rebooting it was fine.
}
}Isaac Waldron wrote:
}>
}> I'm running FreeBSD 4.1.1 stable, built on 9/28 from fresh
}sources. I have
}> a Netgear FA310TX network card which is detected correctly
}as dc0 and works
}> fine, most of the time.
}>
}> Occasionally, after a week or so of uptime, the card
}simply stops receiving
}> packets from the network. It's as if the card is getting
}reset to be down
}> without indicating that to the system. I've tried a
}`ifconfig` down-up
}> cycle several times, but the only thing that seems to work
}is a reboot. I'm
}> also running a simple firewall using ipfw, if that makes
}any difference.
}>
}> This card works fine under windoze, so I don't think it's
}hardware related.
}> Any known issues with this card?
}>
}> Thanks,
}> Isaac Waldron
}> iwaldron at wpi dot edu
}>
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}
}--
}Drew Sanford
}Systems Administrator
}Planetwe.com
}Email: drew@planetwe.com
}
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