Message: 27
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 22:19:05 -0000
From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb at dmlb.org>
Subject: Re: if_bfe hangs?
To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>,
<freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <020501c3ffdb$355a31d0$43c8a8c0 at orac>
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> Hi,
> I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 which has the Broadcom BCM4401 ethernet
controller
> in it, so I am using if_bfe. Mostly it seems to work, but just recently I
> visted a friend who had a 10Mbit hub and I could reliably get my entire
> system to wedge if I did even a small amount of network activity..
>
> Has anyone had a similar experience? I have a 10Mbit hub at work so I
might
> see if it's repeatable, but it's a solid hang (can't break into debugger)
so
> it might be difficult to debug :(
A couple of people have mentioned this, but I haven't seen it.
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I've found that my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop, which also uses the same
chip, usually hangs when working with bad network cables. Otherwise,
it works fine in 100BaseTX or 10BaseT.
Cheers.
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