Something is wrong with the fxp network driver

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Fri Sep 26 17:07:38 PDT 2003


Are they Tyan motherboards by chance ? There was a thread in stable
about this a few weeks ago.  The problems seem specific to those
motherboards.  Someone posted a potential workaround as well.

	---Mike

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:40:08 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current
you wrote:

>I am having a problem with recent builds of -current with the fxp
>driver.  A couple of days ago, the 6 machines in my cluster with fxp
>interfaces all died at about the same time with fxp timeout errors.  The
>machines with 3Com xl interfaces kept on going. Today, I am observing
>that the throughput is about half of what I am seeing on my machines
>with a 3Com xl interface.  Is anybody else observing this?  What other
>information do I need to provide?
>
>Thanks.



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