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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: Thomas Nystrom <thn@saeab.se>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Fix for hanging of vr interface (Rhine Ethernet)
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20021220151835.03a72a48@marble.sentex.ca>
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:
:I will gladly test out the patch, but what was the original problem that 
:people were having with this NIC ?
:
:         ---Mike

    Well, my box is network-booted and nfs mounted.  What happened
    to me was that everything locked up (e.g. because NFS was 
    suddenly inoperable).  It recovered itself 5 minutes later.

    Right now I'm running torture tests with the patch.  No lockups
    so far, but I do see an occassional 'vr0: rx packet lost' on
    the console (about two dozen so far).  I haven't messed around
    too much with the BIOS pci parameters yet.  Does anyone know
    how large vr0's on-chip FIFOs are?

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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