From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:06:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070923230624.6f25ace5@oldman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F5C7B4.7050802@soo.com>
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:56:04 -0400
ben soo <lnx-kern@soo.com> wrote:
> i spoke too soon. The Gbit interface still dies. Lasted around
> 19hrs. or so. i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday
> a Gbit NIC on the firewall died. Different chip (Realtek),
> different driver, different machine, same segment. Segment is a
> mix of 100Mbit and 1Gbit machines.
>
> Symptoms of the failure are it just stops functioning with no error
> messages. ifconfig says there are packets being TX'd and none
> being RX'd. Interface can't be brought up again.
>
> i use this box as the secondary DNS for our Internet domains
> (unblocked by firewall), as well as the database server for our
> developmental web CMS and the LAN ntp server (both services
> invisible outside the LAN).
>
>
> dmesg says this on bootup:
>
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
> > sky2 0000:01:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfefc000 irq 16 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2
> > sky2 eth0: addr 00:01:29:d6:35:f4
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
> > sky2 0000:02:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfcfc000 irq 17 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2
> > sky2 eth1: addr 00:01:29:d6:36:26
Does your network switch support flowcontrol? The Yukon-EC may have
a hardware problem that happens if FIFO gets full. If flow control is enabled,
that shouldn't happen.
The newest version of the driver has a watchdog to try
and detect and do an automatic reset, but it still means there would be about
2 seconds of downtime.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-24 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-08 15:14 PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module Werner Meurer
2007-09-18 4:02 ` ben soo
2007-09-18 14:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-18 15:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-20 6:43 ` ben soo
2007-09-23 1:56 ` PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7 ben soo
2007-09-24 6:06 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-09-28 22:48 ` Bill Davidsen
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