kern/90890: [vr] Problems with network: vr0: tx shutdown timeout

[C. Weber]

The following reply was made to PR kern/90890; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "C. Weber" <cwf-ml at arcor.de>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, maciejb at widzew.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/90890: [vr] Problems with network: vr0: tx shutdown timeout
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:21:50 +0200

 I see this problem, too.
 
 the System in question is a Via EPIA miniITX
 system which has a vr chipset as onboard Ethernet.
 
 I tested it on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6
 
 FreeBSD xxxxx 6.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 #0: Thu Sep 14 22:10:41 
 CEST 2006     root at xxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XXXXX  i386
 
 I see constant shutdown/restart messages when doing a large ftp
 file transfer (a 2 GB file) to the machine that puts the system under
 0.9+ load (with gmirrored disks)
 
 Hardware is a Via Epia ML8000 board with a 800MHz Geode processor.
 
 This bug is especially annoying since it renders the onboard
 NIC on most embedded Via miniITX boards useless (they all
 use variants of the Rhine chipset) under FreeBSD.
 
 If anyone wants me to conduct further tests, I currently have
 the machine in a test environment and can try out a few things.