From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jun 7 22:42:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DA537BA5F for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA61740; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:42:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:42:45 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: "Brech, Cary" Cc: "'freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org'" , "Savio, Florie N" , "'mblott@lucent.com'" Subject: Re: DEC Ethernet Chip Bug? Message-ID: <20000608074244.A61703@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <2B493F87657DD211817300A0C99DD08405967B9E@camb-exch1.kenan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <2B493F87657DD211817300A0C99DD08405967B9E@camb-exch1.kenan.com>; from CBrech@kenan.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:52:04PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:52:04PM -0400, Brech, Cary wrote: > > We are currently encountering a problem with a 10/100 Ethernet Board based > on a DEC Chip. Traffic flows correctly for the first few minutes after a > reboot of the system. After a short period of time, 5 minutes, we can no > longer see TCP traffic. Rebooting restarts the interface. We are using > FreeBSD Version 3.4. > > Has anyone encountered this problem before? If it is the de0 driver I can agree that I had intermediate problems with this driver. But I believe it was before 3.4. Have you tried to shutdown the interface (ifconfig down)? Have you tried to specify the link# option when starting the interface? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message