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From: ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com (Christopher T. Origer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3C589 (zp0) fails under heavy load?
Date: 22 Dec 1995 13:45:27 GMT
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Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) wrote:
: 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?

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Hi 

I've the same problem. Except the nic card I have is an Ether Express 16.
Same sort of problems though. Especially when I use X from  another machine
into that one.


Chris