From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 19:34:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209C616A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:34:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CE443D46 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:34:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9FC5F5C; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:34:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79521-06; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:34:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-79-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.79.217]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568565F54; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:34:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <430F6EDA.8020707@mac.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:34:50 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lord Raiden References: <5.2.0.9.2.20050826104115.00a43b60@192.168.0.25> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20050826104115.00a43b60@192.168.0.25> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Epia 800 and Freebsd 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:34:40 -0000 Lord Raiden wrote: > Just installed 5.3 onto an Epia 800 just a few weeks back and aside from > the controlers being bloody picky as hell (got that fixed by using > special cables), the stupid lan card is now giving me fits just a day > after I put it into active service. Here's the error I'm getting in my > logs repeatedly. > > > vr0: rx packet lost > > vr0: watchdog timeout Yeah, I've seen that network flakyness with vr0 on my EPIA M8000 (or whatever the model number is). Using a really good cable and a switch port seems to help, and the VIA Rhine NIC seems OK for low traffic, but I'm still using a 300MHz old P2 Dell box with an fxp0 rather than my EPIA as a local proxy server as I had wanted to do. -- -Chuck PS: I'm giving some thought to getting a Mac Mini instead. The EPIA case I've got is reasonably small, 11" x ~24" x 4", but a Mini is 6.5" x 6.5" x 2"...!