From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 10 11:14:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0D237B4C5; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:14:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08494; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:14:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAAJEAn22226; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:14:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:14:09 -0500 (EST) To: Charles Richmond Cc: "'Andre Oppermann'" , John Baldwin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Does your Alpha run a SMPng kernel? In-Reply-To: <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DABE41220@rios.sitaranetworks.com> References: <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DABE41220@rios.sitaranetworks.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14860.18535.736764.31772@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Charles Richmond writes: > Are you running with a cross connect? At full duplex? > If so, try backing down to half and/or sticking a > switch in there, whichever is appropiate. Full duplex, with a switch in between. Regardless of the network topology, I'd rather see the OS fixed than cure the symptoms by crippling the network. Eg, the machine is rock-solid with old IPL based kernels. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message