Re: NetBSD 5 partly freezing, may be related to 802.1Q

[iMil <imil%home.imil.net@localhost>]

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> We had some features enable, but I remove those and used a GENERIC kernel to 
> see if it still fails, and unfortunately it still does.
> I think the last kernel working fine was 5.1_GENERIC, and just 2/4 network 
> interfaces used (but I'm not hundred procent sure).
> btw. you left out a quite crucial detail, which arch is your system running? 
> Ours is running amd64...

NetBSD exar 5.1_STABLE NetBSD 5.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Sun Jun  3 19:05:16 
CEST 2012  root@exar:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

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> I'm not sure if we got any wiser...
> btw. did you have three different IP-networks connect before you started using 
> .1Q? (If not, can you try do the same thing without VLAN tagging?)
> As you mentioned earlier, another way to go is to upgrade to 6.0_BETA2 to see 
> if the problem still exists...

This gateway used to have 3 NICs, each one of them being connected to its
dedicated network. I am absolulely not sure the issue is related to vlan
tagging, it's just a wild guess...
Difficulty here is also the freeze occurs very really randomly, it can
happen within an hour, a day or sometimes more.

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