vr card issues on 6.1-STABLE

[Graham Lilley]

Oops..

Forgot to reply back to the whole list.

This issue went away after disabling dhclient on the vr0 interface.
With the machine fixed IP, it's running an absolute dream - glad to see
that FreeBSD wasn't fussy at all with using cheap hardware and changing
hardware after an installation!  Glad this machine wasn't using Windows!

Thanks for replying though ML :)

Regards,

Graham Lilley
Hardware / Network Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: Miroslav Lachman [mailto:000.fbsd at quip.cz] 
Sent: 01 June 2006 11:43
To: Gray Lilley
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org; Graham Lilley
Subject: Re: vr card issues on 6.1-STABLE

Gray Lilley wrote:
> After a motherboard failure in a machine, I purchased a cheap AXPER
> motherboard to replace it.  The machine is a Socket478 P4 with a Via
> Rhine onboard NIC.
[...]

 > Once booted, the machine is contactable locally, can be pinged and
can
 > ssh to it.  After what appears to be a random amount of time (I have
 > observed between 5 and 30 minutes as of now), the vr0 interface seems
to
 > just hang.  The machine cannot be pinged, and no services running on
the
 > machine are contactable.

I have 2 machines with motherboard EPOX 8kra2+ with VIA Rhine vr0 NIC. 
One as desktop and the second as testing machine. Both with AMD Barton
2500+
On desktop machine I can run w2k, FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 6.1 (6.0 
earlier), on testing machine is FreeBSD 6.0. On desktop I mainly work 
under w2k, connecting by Putty SSH to testing machine and others. 
Sometimes I am working under FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.1, conecting to other 
machines on the internet (outgoing ftp/ssh/http) without any problems 
for about one year. Maybe I have luck, but I can't say anything bad 
about vr0.

  > Kernel is GENERIC with the majority of SCSI/RAID removed.

I have GENERIC on testing machine and own kernel (GENERIC without 
SCSI/RAID) on desktop.

Miroslav Lachman