Hi Jan, Thanks for the response.
>> The device that gets lost is the latter. Its a recent problem and we >> have exchanged the network card (we are using the realtek 8139 chip) >> but although the problem has not occurred again (in the last 30 >> minutes) I was wondering whether there were any other possible causes >> of this happening that are worth investigating? >> >> Advice would be appreciated. > > That's weird. The /proc output is built from iterating over all possible > device numbers, looking the structure up via rtdev_get_by_index(). So if > /proc tells you that there is no rteth0 anymore while the rest of RTnet > still uses it, something must have corrupted rtnet_devices[]. Maybe some Perhaps I have not been entirely clear in my email. But the application that generally uses rteth0 does not get hold of it either when it cannot be found in /proc/rtnet/devices. It appears that the application did have hold of rteth0 but lost it. When checking /proc/rtnet/devices after the application no longer has access to it, it appears to be gone. The application code has been operational for 7 months on a number of separate but identical machines and never displayed this behaviour before. Only one of the machines is now playing up with this. Its a bit worrying if you tell me that once the output of /proc/rtnet/devices has been generated, there is no more updating done there. In that case what I am describing would seem almost impossible? Kind regards, Roland Tollenaar. > component runs amok, you should instrument the code carefully (changing > offsets can make the bug move around) to watch the state of this array. > > Jan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users
