From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 09:46:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00404 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00390 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0v87JE-000QmIC; Tue, 1 Oct 96 17:04 MET Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA22138 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:24:53 +0200 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAB22129 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:23:37 +0200 Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE by casparc.ppp.net with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0v86fL-000I6eC; Tue, 1 Oct 96 16:23 MET Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA20341 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:23:34 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA09155; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:29:46 +0100 Message-Id: <199610011529.QAA09155@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> 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) In-Reply-To: <199610011416.QAA21884@allegro.lemis.de>; from Greg Lehey on Oct 1, 1996 16:16:06 +0200 References: <199610011416.QAA21884@allegro.lemis.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.45 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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