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DateSat, 13 May 2006 01:26:16 -0700 (PDT)
FromDavid Lang <>
SubjectRe: network freeze with nforce-A939 integrated rhine card
On Fri, 12 May 2006, David Lang wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2006, Roger Luethi wrote:>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 22:59:44 -0700, David Lang wrote:
>>> I haven't had time to go back and find where is started (my prior kernel
>>> was 2.6.15-rc7), but with 2.6.17-rc1/2/3/4 I've been running into a
>>> problem where when transfering large amounts of data (trying to ftp a TB>> >> "where is started" sounds as if it used to work at some point. In your
>> second posting, however, you note that the problem goes back at least to
>> 2.6.13. So are there any kernels known not to exhibit the problem you
>> described?>> when I posted this origionally I thought it was new in 2.6.17-rc, however 
> since my testing with older kernels hasn't found me a working one yet I 
> suspect that other factors have been involved with makeing it work.
>> these failures have been on multi-gig files ftp'd from the raid array on my 
> machine to the raid array on the replacement machine. In the past I've 
> sucessfully transfered similar sized files to/from my tivo (slow network), my 
> laptop (slow drive), and smaller sets of files to single drives on other 
> systems (7200rpm drives, but not to arrays).>> as I type this I'm starting a test going from a single drive on this machine 
> to the raid array on the remote machine to transfer ~84G of data. My 
> suspicion is that this is going to work.

I just confirmed this, I was able to transfer 84G with no trouble starting 
from /dev/hdb, but starting from /dev/md0 the nic hung in less then 3G

a good boot logs
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xe8121000, 00:11:5b:f4:14:a3, IRQ 17.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link cde1.

root@david:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
         Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
         Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
         Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
         Speed: 100Mb/s
         Duplex: Full
         Port: MII
         PHYAD: 1
         Transceiver: internal
         Auto-negotiation: on
         Supports Wake-on: pumbg
         Wake-on: d
         Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
         Link detected: yes
David Lang
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