Mike Oliver wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Mike Oliver wrote:
>>> Mike Ford Ditto wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this panic a known problem? I just tried to use a Sun Ray for the
>>>> first time since I upgraded from snv_62 to snv_91 and I get this panic
>>>> within a few minutes every time I log in to a Sun Ray. I don't
>>>> know if
>>>> this is a bug in SRSS or OpenSolaris but I thought I'd mention it here
>>>> in case it's something that should be fixed.
>>>>
>>> SRSS doesn't have any in-kernel networking components. All of
>>> its network traffic comes through sockets from user-level
>>> processes. So it's hard to see how SRSS could be the cause of
>>> this panic.
>>
>> From my own experience, SRSS stresses the NIC driver in some unusual
>> ways. A long (long!) time ago I had a problem with my NIC driver
>> that only ever manifested after a couple hours of use as a Sun Ray
>> interconnect. Ordinary use (NFS, NIS, etc.) didn't trigger it at all.
>
> Sure, but I'm not seeing how SRSS would be at fault in that
> scenario.
No, I don't think anyone is blaming SRSS.... the problem looks like one
in the networking stack -- either in softmac or in the driver. I think
Cathy Zhou has suggested it may be a bug that is already fixed.
-- Garrett
>
> Mike.
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