if_bfe hangs?

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Sun Feb 29 18:17:41 PST 2004


I'm working on this


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> 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 :(
> 
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