From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 17:38:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albert.osu.cz (albert.osu.cz [195.113.106.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B3C15448 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from belkovics@albert.osu.cz) Received: from localhost (belkovics@localhost) by albert.osu.cz (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA03688; Sat, 29 May 1999 02:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from belkovics@albert.osu.cz) Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 02:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Josef Belkovics To: Doug White Cc: Josef Belkovics , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3c509,ep,fbsd3.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I am using fbsd 3.1 as ip+ipx router with 2x3c905 (xl,pci) + 4x3c509 > > (ep,isa) boards. > > Yuck. They do make quad-port PCI Ethernet cards. I don't know if a 66MHz > Pentium can handle those though. PCI cards share irq (5) without problem. (I don't understand well your notice - use penquin english.) > > Ep boards many times stays in the state OACTIVE (tx is idle) which means > > that router does not route. > > Router runs 4 years. Before installation of switches it routes well. > > Systat -vmstat 1 reports that p5/66 has enough capacity. I have raised > > timer tick (HZ=1000) but error has improved only little. I also have raised the number of mbuf on 10240. > > Where is bug? In ep driver or in switches? (Please do not advise to connect > > 3c509 boards back into hubs - it is too late.) > Perhaps the cabling between the swtich and ep0 is faulty? It looks like > the card's getting confused and is resetting itself. Badly. > The ep driver isn't the world's best. Well. I have found in mail archive that 3c509 has the 'stuck in OACTIVE' (kern/6694, kern/7042). There is some patch for if_ep.c? Josef Belkovics To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message