From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 11:50:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA20186 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:50:32 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA20180 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:50:28 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA12507; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:50:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:50:21 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503091950.AA12507@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: kav@ihlpf.att.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: AT&T Starlan NAU Problem In-Reply-To: <9503091435.AA05286@ig1.att.att.com> References: <9503091435.AA05286@ig1.att.att.com> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < During an FTP of a large file I see reset messages (which it seems to > recover from). Sometimes there are no reset messages - the system just > locks up tighter than a drum. I also tried NFS but as you can imagine that > only caused the problem quicker. > The card is a 16K card at the standard settings. Is this a known problem > with the driver? Is there a recommended card that I should be using? There are two problems. First of all, the card itself is too slow to keep up with full-speed transmissions. Secondly, the driver gets a receiver-not-ready interrupt and goes into fits because it doesn't know what to do, and eventually locks up. I've been sitting on the NetBSD version of this driver, which might fix these problems, but have avoided doing anything with it 'cos I haven't got one of those cards any more (and wouldn't take one if you gave it to me). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant