Re: Which motherboards work well with em(4)?

Hi Jack,

On Tue, February 21, 2006 4:23 am, Jack Vogel wrote:

Since they are different ethernet controllers I am wondering if it could
be the motherboard failing to deal with the interrupts, or maybe even
the
ethernet switch. Polling appears not to help though. The switch is a
cheap
SMC EZ 5 port, I've been comtemplating getting a cheap 5 port 3Com
switch
from eBay to test.

This is always a real possibility, however you have two systems with
Intel gig nics and both are having this happen, so unless the motherboards
are identical that seems unlikely.

The systems do have the same motherboards and processors -- Asus A7V8X-X
and a Duron 1800. The other components differ slightly, e.g. one has a
SCSI card and tape drive and more RAM, but there isn't a vast difference.
I believe they both have the most recent BIOSes.

Hmm, so its not hanging on transmit, its on receive according to what
you are describing? Is that consistent?

Oh yes sorry, should have clarified that. Correct, it hangs on receive,
consistently -- never ever on transmit. Though the conditions to cause it
to hang on rx are sadly somewhat unpredictable. I haven't seen the problem
really since before Christmas until recently when I've seen it quite a
lot. But then again I am transferring more data around at the moment due
to trying to recover from a hard disk failure in the 6.1-pre machine.

--
Cheers, Chris Howells -- howells@xxxxxxx
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