On 21 May 2008, at 16:24, Moe Sizlak wrote: > As someone mentioned earlier the problem seems to be entirely vr > driver related. > > I threw an amdtek nic in (tulip/fxp chipset related) and have had no > problems > with any more hard resets. > > I will see how it goes over the next few days but note to > freebsd/monowall/openbsd developers > the vr driver is *broken* for soekris net5501. > > Not all users but certainly enough.
I seem to recall that PHK made some fixes to FreeBSD's VR driver for the net5501, and that those fixes were included in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I don't know about monowall, but pfSense 1.2 uses FreeBSD 6.2, with 6.3 available as a test image. A test image based on FreeBSD 7.0 should appear soon, and might be worth trying in your config. As it happens, I'm hoping that the FreeBSD 7.0 rebuild of pfSense will fix an unrelated problem on my net4801 (see http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,9537.0.html ). pfSense is rebooting under sustained traffic of 30 megabits per second. Ironically enough, this traffic load was created after I upgraded some client machines to FreeBSD 7.0, because 7.0 seems to have fixed a performance problem in SCP, apparently relating to mismatched buffer sizes in OpenSSH. So now that my boxes can chuck files around ten times quicker than before, the firewall has started rebooting under the increased load. - Martin. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
