From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 24 13:47:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICI.MGH.HARVARD.EDU (phsexchici.mgh.harvard.edu [132.183.126.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC3A37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchici.mgh.harvard.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:47:20 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1BF0@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: "'fcash@mail.ocis.net'" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Did someone break TCP? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:47:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Freddie Cash [mailto:fcash@mail.ocis.net] wrote: > What NIC are you using? We've had problems with this (Sendto > Failed: No > buffer space available.) using the ep driver (3c509 ISA > cards). Turns out > there's a problem with the driver in FreeBSD versions < 4.6. > Luckily, the external card never goes down so we can connect to the > box and down/up > the card (wrote a nice little watchdog script to do this for > me -- it tries > to send ICMP packets and if it gets an error, then it restarts the > interface). Wow! I have 'ep0: <3Com 3C509B-TPO EtherLink III (PnP)> on isa0' in my dmesg, so that would appear to be the problem. Do you think that you could send me the script? I'd like to see how it works... Thanks, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message