From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 15 09:32:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA10753 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10747 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id LAA04141; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:30:19 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199602151730.LAA04141@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... To: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:30:19 -0600 (CST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602151720.JAA05526@idiom.com> from "David Muir Sharnoff" at Feb 15, 96 09:20:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * >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. What's the alternative? Resetting the box? Seems to me that my solution is a little more preferable! You only hit the 16 ports you are having a problem with. The reality is, you'd PREFER to hang up on your customers rather than maintain 16 dead ports. > That isn't really a very good fix. I'll keep that BB2016 on the > shelf until there is a driver-level fix available. Working on it. :-) It's hard to characterize a problem when the problem is so infrequent. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968