So I'm using the mc0 interface on a 7600/132 running NetBSD 1.6 (along 
with two rtk cards in PCI slots) and so far I haven't had any problems 
with it. Is the reported problem (having it stop working, then having 
to ifconfig it to get it working again) the normal problem with mc0; if 
not, what is? Currently I'm using mc0 to share DSL with some other 
people (so 10baseT is not a problem). It seems to be working ok, but 
it's only been up a week. I'd rather not having it crap out when I'm 
out of town or something.

Thanks,

-- Erik

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:14  AM, Russell McManus wrote:

>
> I had to ditch the mc0 interface in my powermac 7300 for a cheap PCI
> based tlp card, for similar reasons.
>
> -russ
>
>
> Daniel Lamblin <daniell@trillian.beachbash.net> writes:
>
>> This is the built in ethernet interface on an 8500.
>> When I issued: pkg_add apache, all I got was a message indicating that
>> there was no inet6 route to the host (ftp.netbsd.org).
>> Then the interface went down.  I left it to think, seeing if it would
>> recover, but eventually I had to log into the console and issue an
>> ifconfig for the interface again, though ifconfig said the device was 
>> up
>> before, it only started working again and responding to ssh sessions 
>> once
>> I ran ifconfig.
>>
>> Obviously I don't like haivng to resort to the console at random.
>> Has anyone else encountered such problems?
>> This didn't happen the next time I ran pkg_add, nor again.  Maybe I 
>> should
>> disable indet6, since my hadware doesn't really support it.
>> This machine is DMZed "behind" a linksys dsl router/switch.
>>
>> Here's a log of messages:
>> Feb  8 07:00:10 tnt syslogd: restartFeb  8 13:59:58 tnt /netbsd: mc0: 
>> underflow
>> Feb  8 14:06:56 tnt ntpd[161]: sendto(216.231.41.2): Network is down
>> Feb  8 14:08:57 tnt ntpd[161]: sendto(216.254.95.2): Network is down
>> Feb  8 14:14:33 tnt ntpd[161]: sendto(128.59.59.177): Network is down
>> Feb  8 21:55:57 tnt ntpd[161]: Connection re-established to 
>> 128.59.59.177
>> Feb  8 22:05:09 tnt ntpd[161]: Connection re-established to 
>> 216.231.41.2
>> Feb  8 22:07:05 tnt ntpd[161]: Connection re-established to 
>> 216.254.95.2
>> Feb  8 22:11:26 tnt ntpd[161]: time reset 0.405766 s
>> Feb  9 00:00:01 tnt syslogd: restart