From owner-freebsd-net Wed Dec 18 14:51:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85C137B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4E243ED1 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:51:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <20021218225134003006il03e>; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:51:35 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA32888; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:51:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:51:32 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Steve Baxter Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unexplained reboot of freebsd, looking for ways to debug. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Steve Baxter wrote: > > Hello, > > I have posted this hear as I think I have a networking related freebsd > rebooting issue :) > > I am running a couple of FreeBSD boxes both 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD. I am > using to bridge Ethernet over IP using both vtun and netgraph. I am using > the netgraph script in /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge to enable > bridging as native bridging in this cut of code did not seem to work. > > Anyhow, to cut a long sotry short, both of my bridges were working very > very well, I had tested them up to about 90Mb/sec over a public IP network > and the ethernet cards generally lost frames at arounf 5000 frames/sec > mark (about 1 frame in 8000) before the boxes ran into any issues. In the > last week though I have been doing moderate amounts of load on these bpxes > and they have been rebooting as random intervals - somtimes within > minutes of each other. Before this they were working perfectly for 4 > months ! > > What I am after is a way to turn on some form of debugging in order to > find out what is causing this problem. There are no messages left in any > of the var/log files that are of any help. Is there some form of crash > logging or something I can switch on so when the next time it happens I > can do some sort of analysis on the problem. > > > > PS. I am appreciate I am running RELEASE but it has worked for so long and > if anybody can give me a set of steps to upgrade these boxes to a later > rev that can be performed over an ssh session I would be very grateful :-) > do you have ddb in the kernel? do you have a serial console to capture error messages? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message