Hello all, Has anyone experienced any issues with the bge driver that causes the system to freeze, only to be resurected by a hard reboot? This happens fairly rarely, but it is 100% reproducible. I have this file on my desktop that when I attempt to send it to the Solaris server, causes it to freeze.
At first I thought it might be a ZFS, marvell88sx, or network protocol issue. However, I tried the same thing on UFS, with a different hard drive on a different controller and over SMB, NFS, and AFP. Over SSH it worked because it encrypted the traffic, so the stream received would be different. I did not try it with a different network controller because I don't have any available. I also thought it might be a link aggregation issue with a switch that doesn't support LACP, but it doesn't make a difference if aggregation is used or not. Essentially what happens is when the file is sent, the whole Solaris system freezes sporadically, the ethernet links begin to go up/down, and after a few seconds both links are down and the whole system is frozen. I am using the supplied bge drivers from Solaris 10u3 on a 64-bit AMD system with all the latest patches. The ethernet controller is a Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit card. Should I try the binary drivers from Broadcom? How can I determine what the problem is? Can anyone recommend something like a dtrace script that can spit out what's going on until the system freezes and redirect it to the serial port or a file? Thanks, Siegfried _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
