Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7
ben soo wrote: i spoke too soon. The Gbit interface still dies. Lasted around 19hrs. or so. i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday a Gbit NIC on the firewall died. Different chip (Realtek), different driver, different machine, same segment. Segment is a mix of 100Mbit and 1Gbit machines. Symptoms of the failure are it just stops functioning with no error messages. ifconfig says there are packets being TX'd and none being RX'd. Interface can't be brought up again. If you search through my exchanges with Adrian Bunk WRT sk98lin removal, I mentioned a very similar problem. When I wrote that I had some notes in front of me, which are now archived and not quickly available. unloading and reloading the modules didn't fix it, IIRC. I will be doing an update on the machine in question by the end of the year, and at that time I will try shy2 again, since I'll be able to do better testing. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7
ben soo wrote: i spoke too soon. The Gbit interface still dies. Lasted around 19hrs. or so. i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday a Gbit NIC on the firewall died. Different chip (Realtek), different driver, different machine, same segment. Segment is a mix of 100Mbit and 1Gbit machines. Symptoms of the failure are it just stops functioning with no error messages. ifconfig says there are packets being TX'd and none being RX'd. Interface can't be brought up again. If you search through my exchanges with Adrian Bunk WRT sk98lin removal, I mentioned a very similar problem. When I wrote that I had some notes in front of me, which are now archived and not quickly available. unloading and reloading the modules didn't fix it, IIRC. I will be doing an update on the machine in question by the end of the year, and at that time I will try shy2 again, since I'll be able to do better testing. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:56:04 -0400 ben soo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i spoke too soon. The Gbit interface still dies. Lasted around > 19hrs. or so. i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday > a Gbit NIC on the firewall died. Different chip (Realtek), > different driver, different machine, same segment. Segment is a > mix of 100Mbit and 1Gbit machines. > > Symptoms of the failure are it just stops functioning with no error > messages. ifconfig says there are packets being TX'd and none > being RX'd. Interface can't be brought up again. > > i use this box as the secondary DNS for our Internet domains > (unblocked by firewall), as well as the database server for our > developmental web CMS and the LAN ntp server (both services > invisible outside the LAN). > > > dmesg says this on bootup: > > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > > PCI: Setting latency timer of device :01:00.0 to 64 > > sky2 :01:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfefc000 irq 16 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 > > sky2 eth0: addr 00:01:29:d6:35:f4 > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > > PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 > > sky2 :02:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfcfc000 irq 17 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 > > sky2 eth1: addr 00:01:29:d6:36:26 Does your network switch support flowcontrol? The Yukon-EC may have a hardware problem that happens if FIFO gets full. If flow control is enabled, that shouldn't happen. The newest version of the driver has a watchdog to try and detect and do an automatic reset, but it still means there would be about 2 seconds of downtime. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:56:04 -0400 ben soo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i spoke too soon. The Gbit interface still dies. Lasted around 19hrs. or so. i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday a Gbit NIC on the firewall died. Different chip (Realtek), different driver, different machine, same segment. Segment is a mix of 100Mbit and 1Gbit machines. Symptoms of the failure are it just stops functioning with no error messages. ifconfig says there are packets being TX'd and none being RX'd. Interface can't be brought up again. i use this box as the secondary DNS for our Internet domains (unblocked by firewall), as well as the database server for our developmental web CMS and the LAN ntp server (both services invisible outside the LAN). dmesg says this on bootup: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :01:00.0 to 64 sky2 :01:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfefc000 irq 16 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 sky2 eth0: addr 00:01:29:d6:35:f4 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 sky2 :02:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfcfc000 irq 17 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 sky2 eth1: addr 00:01:29:d6:36:26 Does your network switch support flowcontrol? The Yukon-EC may have a hardware problem that happens if FIFO gets full. If flow control is enabled, that shouldn't happen. The newest version of the driver has a watchdog to try and detect and do an automatic reset, but it still means there would be about 2 seconds of downtime. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7
i spoke too soon. The Gbit interface still dies. Lasted around 19hrs. or so. i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday a Gbit NIC on the firewall died. Different chip (Realtek), different driver, different machine, same segment. Segment is a mix of 100Mbit and 1Gbit machines. Symptoms of the failure are it just stops functioning with no error messages. ifconfig says there are packets being TX'd and none being RX'd. Interface can't be brought up again. i use this box as the secondary DNS for our Internet domains (unblocked by firewall), as well as the database server for our developmental web CMS and the LAN ntp server (both services invisible outside the LAN). dmesg says this on bootup: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :01:00.0 to 64 sky2 :01:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfefc000 irq 16 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 sky2 eth0: addr 00:01:29:d6:35:f4 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 sky2 :02:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfcfc000 irq 17 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 sky2 eth1: addr 00:01:29:d6:36:26 Motherboard manufacturer identifies the chips as: Dual Gigabit LAN - Marvell 88E8052 and Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit PCI LAN board is DFI LANPARTY UT CFX3200-DR/G running an Opteron 165. i've brought up the other Gbit network interface on the motherboard and am using that. ben soo wrote: i turned off the motherboard Marvell Gbit devices and installed a Realtek 8169 card, all the while keeping to kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, and saw all the network problems go away. Must mean it was a sky2 driver bug. Am currently running 2.6.23-rc7 on the affected server and the rc7 sky2 driver is holding up fine so far. thank you! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7
i spoke too soon. The Gbit interface still dies. Lasted around 19hrs. or so. i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday a Gbit NIC on the firewall died. Different chip (Realtek), different driver, different machine, same segment. Segment is a mix of 100Mbit and 1Gbit machines. Symptoms of the failure are it just stops functioning with no error messages. ifconfig says there are packets being TX'd and none being RX'd. Interface can't be brought up again. i use this box as the secondary DNS for our Internet domains (unblocked by firewall), as well as the database server for our developmental web CMS and the LAN ntp server (both services invisible outside the LAN). dmesg says this on bootup: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :01:00.0 to 64 sky2 :01:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfefc000 irq 16 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 sky2 eth0: addr 00:01:29:d6:35:f4 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 sky2 :02:00.0: v1.17 addr 0xdfcfc000 irq 17 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2 sky2 eth1: addr 00:01:29:d6:36:26 Motherboard manufacturer identifies the chips as: Dual Gigabit LAN - Marvell 88E8052 and Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit PCI LAN board is DFI LANPARTY UT CFX3200-DR/G running an Opteron 165. i've brought up the other Gbit network interface on the motherboard and am using that. ben soo wrote: i turned off the motherboard Marvell Gbit devices and installed a Realtek 8169 card, all the while keeping to kernel version 2.6.23-rc6, and saw all the network problems go away. Must mean it was a sky2 driver bug. Am currently running 2.6.23-rc7 on the affected server and the rc7 sky2 driver is holding up fine so far. thank you! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
