From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 11:16:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169421504A for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA92587; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:16:19 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199910051816.UAA92587@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Crashes with WANic 405 and FreeBSD 3.3 In-Reply-To: <000001bf0f59$8168d3a0$90a148c3@office.community.net.uk> from Ray Bellis at "Oct 5, 1999 06:46:08 pm" To: rpb@community.net.uk (Ray Bellis) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:16:19 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've been trying to upgrade a system with a WANic 405 card to FreeBSD > 3.3-RELEASE and whenever the sr0 device is ifconfig'ed up the system > completely freezes a couple of seconds later. > > The sr(4) driver seems almost untouched compared to the 2.2.8-stable > version, could there be a major bug in sppp(4) or similar that's causing > this? I don't know of any problems with the sr(4) driver. Sppp(4) has been rewritten between FreeBSD 2.x and 3.x, mainly to make it usable for the isdn folks too. In the process the leased line stuff lost out a little. :-( At the moment I'm busy looking at it. It is ok once the link is up, but there is a few problems with it still. The one is if the link is put into loopback. It looks like it go into transmit frenzy, which might be what you are seeing. The other problem is when the link is down long enough for sppp to timeout, then it won't bring ppp up again if the link is restored. An ifconfig sr0 down; ifconfig sr0 up normally fix this. Do you see any error or other related messages on the console? Is it totally dead? Can you still ping it over the ethernet? Assuming you have an ethernet connection too. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message