From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 15 09:22:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA10120 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [140.174.82.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10115 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:22:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from muir@localhost) by idiom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA05526; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:20:36 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:20:36 -0800 From: David Muir Sharnoff Message-Id: <199602151720.JAA05526@idiom.com> To: Joe Greco Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * > It appears that there's a problem with acknowledging interrupts and the * > Boca cards. I don't know if Joe Greco ever got to the beottom of his * > locking up... * * >From my discussions with other folks, it seems like there may be problems * with particular combinations of BB's and MB's. What we did discover is that * it is trivial to detect the condition and that the card can be reset by * detaching all processes from it (i.e. flipping all the ttys entries to "off" * and then back "on"). The problem occurs with very low frequency and I * haven't had a chance to test anything more sophisticated, last discovery was * made about two weeks ago ;-) * * I'm not sure that the problem I'm seeing is the same problem others are * seeing, however. I don't know. I never tried turning off all my ports when they locked up. I'm not going to -- I'm an ISP and I would like to be thought of as a reliable one. Hanging up on all my users every other day is not going to promote that image. That isn't really a very good fix. I'll keep that BB2016 on the shelf until there is a driver-level fix available. -Dave