Subject: Re: Network chocking every now and then
To: MLH <MLH@goathill.org>
From: None <netbsd@ns.purk.ee>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/04/2003 18:03:28
Hi
Umm ..i have ABIT MAX2 with vr0 running only if i set media to 100baseTX...othervise
i cant upload files to server ;-) Try setting media 'ifconfig vr0 media 100baseTX'
Greetings
Tsiteerimine MLH <MLH@goathill.org>:
> On 4 Feb 2003 05:55:01 -0600, Daniel Eggert wrote:
> > For a while I've suspected this, and now with NFS it's really
> > bad.Traffic from one end of my network gets 'chocked' every now and
> > then.
> >
> > I have clients that mount a nfs share from my file server. While moving
> > data to or from the fileserver all traffic (on all clients) hangs for
> > 10-15 secs every 5-10 minutes, then it is back to normal. Besides the
> > fact that this is very annoying, I don't know how to debug it.
> >
> > Here's my setup
> >
> > Client ------ switch ------ file server
> >
> > I though, that maybe that file servers NIC is re-genotiating the
> > ehternet speed (or something like that) every now and then, and this
> > hangs the connection.
> >
> > Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
> I had what looks like a similar problem with the vr0 driver dropping
> packets on my server's nic :
> http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=19373
> tcpdump indicated what was happening. I haven't heard any response
> about the vr0 driver and don't know if it has been fixed.
>
> The typical problems (bad cable, hub or switch) didn't hang in this
> cyclical manner that this vr0 bug did, where it ran great for a
> while and then just hung due to dropping large chunks of packets
> for several minutes (usually just long enough for cvs to give up).
>
>
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