ethernet Interface haywire ???
Danial Thom
danial_thom at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 15 20:25:55 PST 2006
I wouldn't think that a bus error would have
anything to do with the version of the OS. If the
hardware gets hosed, its likely to do almost
anything.
--- brent <brent at jeneral.com> wrote:
> Thanks--the server has em (intel gigabit) nics.
> Have you seen this on any
> specific version of FreeBSD and *hopefully* not
> on others (e.g. RELENG_6_0)?
>
> Brent
>
> Danial Thom writes:
>
> > I've seen it happen when the ethernet device
> gets
> > a bus error and throws it into some strange
> > state. I've seen it mostly with on-board
> intel
> > devices (fxp), but thats what we use mostly
> so it
> > may not be part specific.
> >
> > DT
> >
> > --- brent <brent at jeneral.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone run into this scenario where a
> BSD
> >> Box (RELENG_5_4) takes down
> >> the whole subnet for only FreeBSD boxes.
> >> Hereâs the scenario: One of my
> >> web servers goes into a crazy state which
> kills
> >> all traffic on the network
> >> for only FreeBSD boxes. Linux boxes can
> talk
> >> to other linux boxes, but
> >> FreeBSD boxes are dead. You can ping a
> FreeBSD
> >> box (from linux) but services
> >> such as SSH go half-way and never completely
> >> connect. Other services such as
> >> http donât work either. Rebooting that
> >> offending box fixes the problem.
> >> Iâve seen this once it a great moon;
> however,
> >> it recently happened two
> >> days in a row. Any suggestions would be
> >> appreciated. I have other
> >> RELENG_5_4 and RELENG_6_0 boxes that donât
> >> seem to be the culprit, as well
> >> as an identical hardware box running
> >> RELENG_6_0. Thanks.
> >>
> >>
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