Date: 25 Feb 1999 16:02:03 +0100 From: Graeme Brown <graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk> To: "FreeBSD-Net (FreeBSD.Org) List" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Cc: Alan ONeill <alan.oneill@bt-sys.bt.co.uk>, Arie van Breene <arie@efficient.com>, Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp> Subject: Troubles with BSDATM and PVCs Message-ID: <n1292164143.57598@maczebedee>
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Folks I am running 4 FreeBSD routers under FBSD 2.2.6 with Kenjiro Cho (Sony CSL) ALTQ kernel which includes the BSDATM driver for Adaptec and Efficient Networks Inc. (ENI) 155 Mbits/s PCI bus ATM NICs. I have installed 2 ENI PCI Bus 155 Mbits/s ATM NICs per router. I have 2 ALTQ shadow PVC interfaces (pvcsif) namely pvc0, pvc1 configured per machine. Over a time (say a few days) I find that typicaly one of the pvcsif becomes unserviceable, I cannot ping A->B or B->A from either end of the pvc. ping reports 100 % packet loss. The receive lights on the ATM NICs show as green and therefore seem to be receiving cells ok. I am running GateD 4.06 configured to run RIPv2. When I check the routing tables at A and B with netstat -rn, the point to point route entries seem correct. So don't think its a routing problem. I have returned eight ENI cards (multimode fibre type) to ENI following such problems. ENI tested all eight cards and they tested as OK. I have swapped over to UTP5 cable based cards but the "unserviceable" pvc problem still occurs. Has anyone seen/heard of reliability problems using BSDATM in conjunction with ENI ATM NICs or more specifically using ENI cards with ALTQ pvcsifs ? TIA Graeme Brown BT Labs, UK email: graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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