From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 01:26:45 +0100 Subject: Re: Mace and Bmac ethernet drivers [was: Occasional crash reports] From: "Iain Sandoe" To: Mike Fedyk , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: <20010819002647.48C57DBAFB@atlas.valhalla.net> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, Aug 18, 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:16:58PM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote: >> as I say, booting with the BootX *init* (rather than the application) bmac, >> at least, seems reliable on g3/beige (don't use Mace much). > What's your best uptime for the g3? I have one setup as a ipsec > gateway/firewall, and it didn't last over 28 days. Add a tulip card (it > already had one for firewall, now has two...) and I now have 70 days uptime. Hmmm. The g3/beige is my dev box - the interval between reboots for new kernels is much less than that ;-) I don't (necessarily) think this is the same problem - with the corruption I was seeing booting using the BootX *app* I was struggling to get 2 hours uptime ... it was crashing with illegal instruction oopses in the network stack. ciao, Iain. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/