From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 16:52:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9E637B86F for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 16:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from death@southcom.com.au) Received: from x (hobax1-049.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.190.49]) by mail01.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21215 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 09:52:14 +1000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000504095137.00a938e8@mail.southcom.com.au> X-Sender: death@mail.southcom.com.au (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 10:49:19 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: chris Subject: Network failure & random "vr0: Watchdog timeout" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was looking through the archvies for answers to this problem but it doesn't seem as though it's been fixed.. So i thought i'd pop in and hopefully give some useful information and ask for some help. I just upgraded from a Shuttle HOT-541 m/b, Pentium 166, 32MB ram, CLDG54M30 vid card, to an AOpen AX59 Pro, K6-2 400, 128MB ram, Diamond Stealth ii s220. Nothing i could see in the kernel or anything needed adjusting, i just swapped the m/b & cpu and booted up fine. Everything was going smoothly until my network connection started to die and the only clue i could see as to why was the occasional "vr0: watchdog timeout" in my log. Every time i try and transfer a large file via ftp it cruises along at 12MB/s but eventually slows and then dies with a "connection reset by peer". Sometimes the connection comes back. Sometimes it doesn't. The only way i seemed to be able to get it back without rebooting is by doing "ifconfig vr0 down" then "ifconfig vr0 up". I have a D-Link DFE530TX NIC and have not had any troubles at all for many many months before the upgrade. I am using 4.0-STABLE. The box is connected to an MSI K7 Pro, Athlon 600, 256MB RAM, D-Link DFE530TX running Windows 2k Pro. Dmesg for my current config follows: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Thu May 4 11:16:31 EST 2000 death@boing.ahoy.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/DEATH Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (400.91-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf AMD Features=0x80000800 real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 128061440 (125060K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc027b000. npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib2: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib2 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x6400-0x640f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 9.0 irq 11 vr0: port 0x7000-0x707f mem 0xe3440000-0xe344007f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:d8:19:b7 miibus0: on vr0 amphy0: on miibus0 amphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pcib1: on motherboard pci2: on pcib1 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A IP Filter: initialized. Default = pass all, Logging = enabled IP Filter: v3.3.8 ad0: 4103MB [8894/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 ad2: 1036MB [2105/16/63] at ata1-master using WDMA2 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Cheers Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message