Hello,
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-05-18, Moe Sizlak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have had a net5501 running monowall 1.3b11 for about a month now >> but find that most days after cold booting my XP box I need to hard reset >> my soekris box to connect. > I have the same issue on openbsd 4.2(not tried 4.3 yet) Sometimes it will not allow any traffic on the interface that is connected by a cross-cable. Only on machines that runs VISTA/XP i had this issue. The only solution was reset. the soekris. > This is almost certainly an interaction between the vr(4) driver > and the NIC in the 5501 (it also affects the PCEngines alix but not > most other supported chips). If you can connect from another machine > and force it to disable/re-enable the interface (or force the media > type to change) it should come back up without rebooting. > > I believe I noticed it happening more often when using the auto- > crossover (i.e. connecting to a PC using a straight cable). > > When certain devices are plugged into the NIC first (e.g. > Thinkpad X40) it stops this problem from happening (i.e. plug > in a good device, then replace with one that normally has the > problem, then the problem won't occur). > > ...so you might try plugging the linux box into the port for > the XP box when it first boots, then change it over. > > The other way is to plug in a switch that stays powered-up, since > this behaviour is associated with losing link to the nic. > > It's meant to be working ok in the newer vr(4) driver on FreeBSD 7+ > (m0n0wall is based on older FreeBSD 6.3), but as far as I'm aware > the relevant part to fix just this problem hasn't been isolated > from the huge number of changes (both style and code) in the same > commit. > > This definitely also affects OpenBSD, it looks like also NetBSD > and DragonFlyBSD as well as FreeBSD <=6.. > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
