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Date:      Sun, 03 May 1998 11:20:55 +1000
From:      Andrew <andrew@iaccess.com.au>
To:        Ustimenko Semen <semen@iclub.nsu.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ethernet card Problems 
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19980503112053.006d23d0@iaccess.com.au>

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Thanks for that... I'll try it :)

If there were no bugs, then we wouldn't have all this fun tryin to fix 'em :)




At 10:33 PM 5/2/98 +0700, Ustimenko Semen wrote:
>Hello, and sorry for late :-(
>
>On Fri, 1 May 1998, Andrew wrote:
>
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I'm having some ethernet crad problems.  The card i'm using is a SMC8216
>> >10/100Mbps
>> >I'm running it on 100Mbps.
>> >I'm running ipfilter with transproxy and squid on a 14 Gig cache on
>> >freebsd3.0-current, divertin all packets comin in on port 80 to
transproxy.
>> >This is what messages tells me just before the whole thing crashes:
>> >
>> >Apr 30 12:29:10 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: device timeout 16 packets
>> >Apr 30 12:29:10 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: can't stop TX DMA
>> >Apr 30 12:35:06 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: device timeout 16 packets
>> >Apr 30 12:35:06 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: can't stop TX DMA
>> >Apr 30 12:38:35 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: device timeout 16 packets
>> >Apr 30 12:38:35 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: can't stop TX DMA
>> >Apr 30 13:22:10 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: device timeout 16 packets
>> >Apr 30 13:22:11 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: can't stop TX DMA
>> >Apr 30 13:22:57 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: device timeout 16 packets
>> >Apr 30 13:22:57 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: can't stop TX DMA
>> >Apr 30 13:33:30 aphrodite squid[200]: Restarting Squid Cache (version
>> >1.1.20)...
>> >Apr 30 13:33:32 aphrodite squid[200]: Ready to serve requests.
>> >Apr 30 13:59:36 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: device timeout 16 packets
>> >Apr 30 13:59:36 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: can't stop TX DMA
>> >Apr 30 22:38:34 aphrodite squid[200]: clientReadRequest: FD 51: (35)
>> >Resource temporarily unavailable
>> >Apr 30 23:22:24 aphrodite /kernel: Out of mbuf clusters - increase
>> maxusers!
>> >Apr 30 23:22:24 aphrodite /kernel: tx0: cannot allocate mbuf cluster
>> >
>> >I have maxusers set to 500 and it still runs out of mbuf clusters?
>> >
>> >It would be great if someone could shed some light on this problem
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance
>> >
>
>I wonder, if you use only SMC8216, how does tx driver boot?
>It supports only SMC9432TX (base on SMC83c17x chip).
>
>Else "tx0: can't stop TX DMA" may means that you have broken
>card, or PCI bus speed is more than 33Mhz. (If only there is no bugs :-)
>
>I'm keeping looking.
>
>Try to enable EPIC_USE_IOSPACE option in if_tx.c,
>it forces use outl instead of movl.
>
>
>
>
Andrew Specht                  |    System Administrator
andrew@iaccess.com.au          |    Internet Access Australia
+61 03 9686 6677               |    Melbourne , Australia
http://www.iaccess.com.au

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