5.4-REL random reboots

[Bas Essers]

Well the 3Com costs 30 euros and the realtek was only 10 euros. That's why i 
started testing by disabling the cheapysales one :)

I do have two NICs in the freebsd machine, it's a gateway for my LAN to the 
Internet.
The one on the LAN side is a Broadcom and uses the bfe driver, and the 
external one i replaced was a realtek (rl) and is now a 3com (xl). I'm quiet 
happy with the way it's working now so i'm not going to put more wires in 
there then necessary ;P

On 7/15/05, Gayn Winters <gayn.winters at mail.bristolsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Casey Scott
> > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 5:20 PM
> > To: Bas Essers
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: 5.4-REL random reboots
> >
> >
> > > Just a little follow-up to conclude my problem.
> > >
> > > I solved it by switching from a realtek NIC for my internet
> > interface to a
> > > 3COM NIC and i can run everything without these 'random'
> > reboots now.
> > >
> > > It's still strange to me though because this problem came
> > up out of the
> > > blue.
> > >
> > > Well it's all good now :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Met vriendelijke groet,
> > > Bas Essers
> >
> > My rebooting issue has not occurred since I got rid of 3com
> > NICs! The plot
> > thickens...
> >
> > Casey
> >
> Are there any good test utilities for NICs on FreeBSD? What if there
> are two (or more) NICs? I can imagine a cross-over cable connecting
> them for the test. I also seem to recall a "loop back frob (plug)" that
> was used to test a single NIC. If one had a known excellent quality NIC
> card, perhaps it could be inserted and used to test the main NIC.
> 
> -gayn
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Met vriendelijke groet,
Bas Essers

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