Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:53:42 -1000 (HST) From: Bill Marquette <billm@danger.ms> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Wayne M Barnes <stabilizer@klentaq.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ethernet hard or soft failure Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911102143330.805-100000@nuke.danger.ms> In-Reply-To: <199911110606.WAA79532@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > No luck so far. Every weekday between 1 and 4 or so, my NIC card stops > > transmitting across the network. The console is stays up, but no pings > > can get out, nor can anyone log in from anywhere else. > > What does the link light on the hub show is going on? Usually when I see > this thermal problem the hub light will either be going nuts, or on the > partitioning hubs it shows the port has gone into jabber mode and has > been partitioned out of the network. For me the hub has always been sitting there with a solid link light showing no activity. I should point out that I run -CURRENT as it's a personal workstation and I'm doing some development work that would benefit from being done on -CURRENT. I'm merely dropping in on this as I'm having similar issues. > > > have been 3com 3c905 and generic DEC 2104x chipset cards, FYI. So far for > > > me the only thing that's helped (hasn't fixed it, but helped) has been to > > > disable my screensaver in X. > > This could perhaps lower the thermal temperature in your chassis, please > check your ventalation and internal temperature. Look for dead power > supply fans, etc. Oh, and look for an Intel branded DC21x4x chip... None of the above I'm afraid. The machine in question is running an original 10MBit DEC card from well over a year ago now with NO problems until I switched to FreeBSD. As for heat, I'd buy that three months ago, there's now so damn many fans in this case adding another one would only increase noise and not help temperature and the only fan blowing out warm air is the one in the power supply. As I've posted on the -CURRENT lists, I can duplicate the issue by raising the network load to around 100K/sec...usually I see the NIC die w/in minutes. For reference, my 3com 3c905 card would just die with a no route to host error and then eventually come back; this again is with near no network activity and at the time a screensaver (Matrix from KDE to be precise). Anyways, I'll be trying out -STABLE on this machine this weekend sometime cause my problems are probably a -CURRENT issue that nobody else is having. Just trying to get to the bottom of it and grabbing on to ANYONE standing nearby ;-P Thanks!!! --Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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