rl(4) is not ready for mpsafenet net enough? (silent reboots)

Marc Olzheim marcolz at stack.nl
Thu Jul 21 14:25:19 GMT 2005


On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:48:17PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> I got silent (without panic) reboots approx. every 4 hours running rl(4) 
> driver. When I turn off mpsafenet with
> debug.mpsafenet=0
> reboots are stopped. I have KASSERTS on, but none of them are triggered, 
> just silent hardware reboots. Plain UP machine. No netgraph, ipfw, etc.
> Any ideas?

I thought rl cards were inherently MP unsafe because of design
flaws. Does anyone know it they can be used safely nowadays anyway ?

Marc
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