From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 18 19:51:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D28514D2A for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from altavista.net (dialup2-21.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.212]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA22831; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 05:56:52 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3792935D.D681007E@altavista.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 05:54:21 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLIP is still broken :( References: <379231DA.CF6721EB@altavista.net> <19990718192927.A98757@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > Does anybody have a plans to fix plip code which is broken a quite > > awhile (several months or so)? > > Since I used it just last week on two -CURRENT boxes, I'd say there is > some other problem you are experecing. I'm also using two -current boxes (P133 and K6-2/300) and when trying to do more or less massive file transfer one of the boxes dying with panic (usually one with a slower processor, but not alvays). Changing ppc flags also doesn't resolve a problem. If you can please try to test it by doing "ping -f -s 8000 other_side" - this test actually bring one side to its knees it several seconds (at lease for me). Some time ago I had rised this question and Bruce Evans told that this problem arise because of switch to newbus. Maybe you can look at his original meassage at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1692956+1694453+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-current/19990607.freebsd-current -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message