Messages in this thread | | | From | "Roberto Oppedisano" <> | Date | Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:05:52 +0100 | Subject | problems with Netflex 3/P (tlan) |
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Hardware: Compaq Deskpro 2000 with Compaq NetFlex-3/P, Rev. 16 ethernet card, connected via a Cisco Catalyst 3000 switch to our LAN (10BaseT).
Kernel: 2.2.13pre3 (but the same happens also with 2.2.1[012] and 2.3.12, the only kernel I used on this PC).
If I run this simple script from a client (SPARC Ultra 1 running Solaris 2.5.1+latest updates, but I don't think it matters):
while [ 1 ] ; do ncftpget ftp://ws95/pub/what_ever_you_want.tar.gz ; rm what_ever_you_want.tar.gz ; sleep 1 ; done
after some time (usually less the 5 minutes), ws95 (the Deskpro, which is running wu-ftpd) can't see the *entire* network anymore; if i do:
ifdown eth0 rmmod tlan ifup eth0
then ws95 can see the the LAN again (just shutting down the interface, without rmmod is not sufficient); there a no errors in the logs. Afret reading Documentation/tlan.txt, I tried to enable debug in the driver (compiled as a module) but I get:
root@ws95:/ # insmod tlan "debug=0x01" /lib/modules/2.2.13pre3/net/tlan.o: invalid parameter debug
rao@ws95:~$ insmod -V insmod version 2.1.121
Here are the (I hope) relevant infos
rao@ws95:~$ dmesg Linux version 2.2.13pre3 (rao@ws95.bspd.it) (gcc version egcs- 2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #82 Mon Sep 6 10:04:02 CEST 1999 Detected 199434757 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x34 Calibrating delay loop... 79.67 BogoMIPS Memory: 63604k/65536k available (636k kernel code, 416k reserved, 848k data, 32k init) CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf2074 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: WDC AC21600H, ATA DISK drive hdc: ATAPI 40X CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC AC21600H, 1549MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=787/64/63, DMA Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed Adding Swap: 8028k swap-space (priority -1) TLAN driver, v1.0, (C) 1997-8 Caldera, Inc. TLAN: eth0 irq=11 io=1010, Compaq NetFlex-3/P, Rev. 16 TLAN: eth0: Link forced.
rao@ws95:/usr/src/linux$ grep -v "#" .config CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M586TSC=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_1GB=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_RTL8139=m CONFIG_NET_EISA=y CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=m CONFIG_TLAN=m CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 CONFIG_PRINTER=m CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE=y CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m CONFIG_FAT_FS=m CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m CONFIG_JOLIET=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFSD=m CONFIG_SUNRPC=m CONFIG_LOCKD=m CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
TIA -- ciao, Roberto
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