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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!news.ossi.com!pagesat.net!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: 3C589 (zp0) fails under heavy load? Message-ID: <nbRrG94@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:10:24 UTC Lines: 26 I have a laptop that is right now doing a heavy NFS operation (a dump of a filesystem into an NFS mounted file). The Ethernet interface in question is a 3c589 running with the coax MAU. The symptom is that the interface will lock up. ping will report that all the buffer space is filled. ifconfig -a shows everything as usual, except that the OACTIVE flag shows up. I must ifconfig the interface down and up to get it to work again. I have gotten used over the last few minutes to typing in a remote xterm (like this message), and doing an 'ifconfig zp0 down ; ifconfig zp0 up' in another window when the xterm locks up. dmesg reports nothing out of the ordinary. netstat -i shows this: zp0 1500 <Link>00.20.af.c2.9a.8e 44455 0 123213 475 0 zp0 1500 204.147.226 icarus 44455 0 123213 475 0 which does not seem out of the ordinary (there are always a few oerrs, but nothing to explain them so far as I can tell). Has anyone else seen this sort of behavior? -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | AMD +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | Inside URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ |