Date: 30 Aug 1998 05:00:20 +0300 From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/7767: de driver still buggy - power cycle of death Message-ID: <x2ww7rfcui.fsf@katiska.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: Joe Greco's message of 28 Aug 1998 07:04:24 %2B0300 References: <199808280343.WAA07182@aurora.sol.net.newsgate.clinet.fi>
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Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> writes: > >Number: 7767 > >Synopsis: de driver still buggy - power cycle of death > >Environment: > > de-based 10/100 PCI Ethernet card > Bay Networks 350F > > >Description: > > Power cycling the Bay Switch causes the de interface to stop working. The > interface becomes un-pingable and unresponsive. The rest of the system > remains functional. This is highly annoying when you have to log in to > 16 machines to fix all the boxes that you had plugged into the switch. I have reported this some time ago, it came when some version of de driver was imported from NetBSD. Have you tested -current, it seems that de driver there seems to have received lots of patches lately, many of which seem to be related ? > I have noticed varying specifics under different cards. For example, > a Kingston PCI 21041 10Mbps card may print that it has autoselected > the AUI or BNC ports at the time the switch is cycled - even though > these ports do not exist on a KNE40T. I think this may be fixed in -current, by reading the source. > >How-To-Repeat: > > Power cycle the Bay Switch. I have seen this to happen without powercycling, certain equipment seem to loose link every now and then. > >Fix: Workaround seems to be to force media type with "media" ifconfig option. I have had no trouble after that, other than forcing config edits when moving stuff from hubs to switches and vice versa (as backup equipment for 100 Mbps switche is usually an obsoleted 10 Mbps switch or hub, this is an issue). > Reset box, or > > ifconfig <ifc> down; ifconfig <ifc> up -- Heikki Suonsivu / Clinet Oy / Tekniikantie 12 / FI-02150 Espoo / FINLAND, hsu@clinet.fi mobile +358-40-5519679 work +358-9-43542270 fax -4555276 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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