From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 19:15:42 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 19:15:40 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (u57n248.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.57.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6D237B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:15:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from unisys (Windozzze [192.168.8.2]) by matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA06848; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:15:36 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from matt@researcher.com) From: "Matt Rudderham" To: Cc: Subject: RE: mysterious power reset (RealTek Nics) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:13:48 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <90oi5q+a7k1@eGroups.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi, > > Do you have any more information about realtek nics & power failures? > Where'd you find out about this? It was suggested to me when I wrote about the power reset problem on the list a few months back. > I've had similar mysterious power resets in an old machine which I > thought were due to a lousy power supply, but the nic thing makes > sense since the failures occured after samba clients tried to attach > to the machine after long periods of no samba activity. Well, that could be related, although I don't run Samba on my boxes. > The machine never got more than 30 days of uptime...I've since > replaced the machine with a slightly newer model, but I kept the > realtek nic... :) It hasn't powercycled yet, but it's only been about > a week. Hopefully that will be a fix, from what I remember I've heard people with uptimes of anywhere between a reset every few days to every 30 or more who seemed to have solved it with replacing their NICs. I sure wish I could use my old trusty DEC de204s again, hopefully the support for that will be fixed up. They are old ISA 10m-bit, but they ran faster than the IBM NE2000s I run now. (Also CC to the list so solutions will appear in the archives):) - Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message