From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 27 15: 0:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0044B37C0EA for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6RM0Uk04650; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:00:30 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jim Flowers Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd 4.0Release Message-ID: <20000727150029.F17222@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from jflowers@peony.ezo.net on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:36:23PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jim Flowers [000727 14:35] wrote: > We have been using fbsd 4.0-RELEASE on a number of router applications > (IPV4). Recently we have switched to new hardware and now we get fatal > faults periodically. > > Typically these run with a minimum kernal using ipfw and natd and not much > more. 32 MB memory. > > Does this indicate that my new hardware is probably not going to work with > fbsd 4.0? > > Anything I can do to find out Yes, please see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html You shouldn't use Realtek, the cards are junk afaik, get an intel card or 3com. You should also look at increasing ram and/or maxusers or NMBCLUSTERS. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message