3rd nic's a charm?

From: Tim Pushor (timp_at_crossthread.com)
Date: 12/29/03

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    Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:41:39 -0700
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    Hi all, happy holidays!

    I have an old box that I am using as my home firewall/NAT box for my
    residential cable ISP. It was running at or about 4.0.

    I was using 2 xl interfaces (3com 3c509b's) and was very stable.

    I have recently added another network at home, and wanted to add another
    interface to the box, so I added another 509b and the box became
    unstable. It would work, then hang, then work etc. The thing just
    rebooted itself a few minutes ago.

    I installed 5.1-RELEASE on it for a couple of reasons, but was curious
    to see if I tickled a bug in the stack or driver by adding the 3rd nic.
    The box doesn't exhibit the exact same problems now, but still stops
    responding to network traffic once in a while. (i.e its still unstable,
    but the symptoms are different).

    I am pretty sure the card I put in is OK - it came from a working
    system. The box is of an older vintage - Its a P133 with an Intel VX
    chipset on a gigabyte motherboard.

    After a while last night, dmesg reported weird things, like just one
    garbled line.

    The relevant bits from a working dmesg:
    xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x6100-0x617f mem
    0xe4002000-0xe400207f irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci0
    xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:12:89:1e
    miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
    xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0
    xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
    xl1: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x6200-0x627f mem
    0xe4000000-0xe400007f irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
    xl1: Ethernet address: 00:50:04:67:7e:63
    miibus1: <MII bus> on xl1
    xlphy1: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus1
    xlphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
    xl2: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x6300-0x637f mem
    0xe4001000-0xe400107f irq 9 at device 10.0 on pci0
    xl2: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:07:21:43
    miibus2: <MII bus> on xl2
    xlphy2: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus2
    xlphy2: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!
    Tim

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