On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:29:49AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Feb 2, 11:29am, anders@dinsen.net (Anders Dinsen) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: Freezing i386
> 
> | Thanks for the hint, I switched to 10baseT and problems went away with one 
> | and two cards. Switching manually to media 100TX stops all network I/O.
> | 
> | This is far less than optimal. Is this any kind of known problem with the 
> | 3C905?
> 
> Don't know. I have only one ex0, and I am running it at 10Mbits since it
> is connected to a 10BaseT hub. What are yours connected to? Can you try
> switching the hub/switch and see if it improves things. In anycase even
> if it does improve things it is probably a driver issue that needs to
> be fixed.

Back in October, I complained in the current-users thread "ipnat
is broken in 2.0RC4", that a -current/i386 based firewall kept
freezing, and unfortunately I found no hints - no sign of anything
special happening when it happened. To quote:

  So, replacing the -current/i386 code of 13 October 2004 with code
  from 15 October 2003 has "fixed" this firewall/nat box. On Monday
  it will be 3 weeks that it has been up continuously.

In fact, that box has been running 2003 code ever since with no
freezes. (same box, network, etc.)

The reason this thread seems connected: the firewall contains 3
3Com 3c905C-TX 10/100 Ethernet with mngmt (rev. 0x78) cards (ex+exphy)
Possibly a link?

Cheers,

Patrick