> I am using the floppy image of Dachstein with pppoe from Kenneth Hadley. > The system is a PII 266 mhz with 64 meg of ram and 2 Netgear FA310 nics > which use the tulip driver. The connection can be up for 1 or 2 weeks > and then later in the day I can not connect to anything. Looking at the > weblet, ppp0 is not showing an inet address. I have rebooted the router > several times and it will not aquire an ip address from Covad. Only > after I power off the router and then boot up then it aquires an ip address. > My question is, I remember a thread here awhile back about the > connection dying with the FA310 cards. But I am not sure what to search > for in the archives. > Any thoughts on this?
I've seen FA310 cards and older versions of the Tuilp driver get "stuck", resulting in a "dead connection". Essentially, if the low-level link was ever dropped (ie the ethernet cable got unplugged, the hub lost power, or something similar happened), the low-level interface of the FA310's got confused, and the card would stop sending/recieving packets, although to all higher-level software tools, it looked like the interface was "up"...the packets just never made it to the wire. Un-configuring and re-configuring the interface would restore connectivity (net ifreset <interface>), although this is obviosly a hassle. Current verisons of the tulip driver no longer exibit this problem, and I know for a fact that the problem is fixed with the Dachstein kernel (I have *LOTS* of FA310's deployed in LEAF boxes around my network). Does this sound like your problem? Are you using the Dachstein kernel and modules? You can easily test for this issue by unplugging your network cable for a few seconds. If everything works again when you plug the cable back into the NIC, something else is causing the problem... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
