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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!ctoriger 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 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4becpn$9uh@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <nbRrG94@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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? : -- : 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/ | 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