Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:29:45 +0100 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Subject: Re: Problems with multiple Ethernet boards (was: Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <199610011529.QAA09155@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199610011416.QAA21884@allegro.lemis.de>; from Greg Lehey on Oct 1, 1996 16:16:06 %2B0200 References: <199610011416.QAA21884@allegro.lemis.de>
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Greg Lehey writes: > Jaroslaw Bazydlo writes: > > > > Situation: > > > > FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE / 8M RAM and 32M of swap / 5 Ethernet Cards / > > IP Filter 3.1.0 run in the system > > > > This computer acts as a Ethernet router w/o problems but sometimes it hangs > > up for a couple o secconds. I logfile I can see "ed2: device timeout" in > > those moments. This could point to hardware problems. Ok I'll try to replace > > it with the new one but... It could be an interrupt problem. 5 boards you say? Is one at irq 7? Could you supply the complete information ? (dmesg output, kernel config file). > > You'd probably get more answers if you had selected a subject line > like "Problems with multiple Ethernet boards" > > > Does anyone know how to judge how much memory I need according to number o > > Ethernet Cards (all are 10BaseT, UTP 10Mbit/s) ???? > > I don't think they're a significant factor. I suppose that 8 MB of > RAM is not exactly too much, but I don't think that that's the > problem. I've run routers (one Ethernet board, one ISDN board) in 4 > MB, and didn't have any memory pressure. I don't expect the > additional boards to make any difference. I'd guess that you might > have a driver problem. Which boards are you using? > > Greg -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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