Adaptec Quad Nic Problem

Peter J. Blok pblok at inter.NL.net
Wed Sep 10 10:28:07 PDT 2003


Hi,

I have the same card working since 4.5 I believe. Even under massive load I do 
not have any issues. As a matter of fact I have two of those in one box.

However, I have seen this once in a different PC. It turned out to be an 
interupt conflict.

Peter
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 16:27, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
>  Hi All,
>
>      I have a Firewall/Gateway running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE connected to an
> internet link of 2.5Mbits/s througth an Quad-NIC Adaptec ANA6944A, that
> when having a high""traffic the switch port where the machine is connected
> points that's is down and the following messages appear in
> /var/log/messages:
>
>  Sep  8 10:53:41 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout
>  Sep  8 10:54:59 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout
>  Sep  8 11:01:53 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
>  Sep  8 11:01:57 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout
>  Sep  8 11:14:37 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout
>  Sep  8 11:20:11 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
>  Sep  8 11:20:14 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
>  Sep  8 11:45:26 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
>  Sep  8 12:03:38 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
>  Sep  8 12:03:41 Krusty /kernel: sf0: TX ring full, resetting
>
>  The transfers don't exceed 1/2 off total bandwitch available in this link,
> that's 2.5Mbit/s but the transfers don't exceed 700 Kbit/s.....
>
>  After google, I have seen some case about that but without an solution.
>  Someone can help me !?
>
>    Best Regards,
>
>     Alexandre Biancalana
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