Steffen Klassert wrote:
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:36:35PM +0200, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 06:33:18PM +0200, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> >> Hello everybody.
> >> I'm getting these errors (with packet/connectivity loss) on
> >> our firewall after I have plugged in a 3c905C nic. Linux is
> >> Slackware 10.2 with vanilla 2.6.16.1.
> >>
> >> Hints?
> >>
> >> PS: I have temporary resolved the problem running 'ifconfig
> >> eth2 down' and 'ifconfig eth2 up'
> >>
> >> Apr 5 17:47:07 Teti kernel: eth2: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
> >> Apr 5 17:47:47 Teti last message repeated 4 times
> >> Apr 5 17:48:57 Teti last message repeated 7 times
> >> Apr 5 17:49:57 Teti last message repeated 6 times
> >> Apr 5 17:50:57 Teti last message repeated 6 times
> >>
> >> Apr 5 17:47:07 Teti kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed
out
> >
> >There were some problems of this kind with 10base2 networks in 2.6.16.
> >Could you please try whether 2.6.17-rc1 has this problems too?
>
> [Sorry for the very huge delay, but after 2.6.17-rc1 upgrade
> xfs filesystem crashed].
>
> Same problem here with 2.6.17-rc3-git18. Running ifconfig
> eth2 down and ifconfig eth2 up resolves the problem for
> a while.
Actually I have not really an idea what is going on here,
but increasing the debug level could give some more informations.
Setting debug=4 is a good start.
I have moved this damn pc from the remote to my site and I have
placed it in production environment with 2.6.17-rc5
No problem after 24 hours (on the remote side the problem was
arising after a couple of hours). I have modprobed 3c59x with
debug=4. I see only these kind of messages (are they fine?):
Jun 5 14:31:25 Pleiadi kernel: eth2: vortex_error(), status=0x8081
Jun 5 14:31:40 Pleiadi last message repeated 3 times
Jun 5 14:31:47 Pleiadi kernel: eth2: vortex_error(), status=0x8281
Jun 5 14:31:47 Pleiadi kernel: eth2: Media selection timer tick happened,
Autonegotiate.
Jun 5 14:31:47 Pleiadi kernel: dev->watchdog_timeo=1250
Jun 5 14:31:47 Pleiadi kernel: eth2: MII transceiver has status 782d.
Jun 5 14:31:47 Pleiadi kernel: eth2: Media selection timer finished,
Autonegotiate.
Jun 5 14:31:51 Pleiadi kernel: eth2: vortex_error(), status=0x8081
Jun 5 14:32:03 Pleiadi last message repeated 2 times
Jun 5 14:32:10 Pleiadi kernel: eth2: vortex_error(), status=0x8481
Jun 5 14:32:15 Pleiadi kernel: eth2: vortex_error(), status=0x8081
Jun 5 14:32:46 Pleiadi last message repeated 7 times
The only relevant change, between the remote and my site, is a
different ethernet switch where the 3c905C is connected to.
Could it be an issue?
Did you try older kernel versions too?
I started with 2.6.16.x because I need iptables policy match.
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