At 11:24 AM 5/21/2008, Moe Sizlak wrote: >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.
All of the problems I saw were fixed in RELENG_7 of FreeBSD back on April 11th http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/vr/if_vr.c has the details of all the bugs that were fixed. There is also a userland work around to the issue (on FreeBSD at least) where the driver gets wedged after a media transition. e.g. if someone unplugges an ethernet cable, or the port goes down and up, the old driver will often wedge and you need to do an ifconfig down;ifconfig up on the NIC to fix it. I have a few releng_6 boxes deployed in remote locations I cant safely upgrade where I have a script that watches syslog messages and resets the NIC automatically. #!/bin/sh #look for the following in kern.* on FreeBSD vr1: link state changed to UP #this means the interface state might have bounced, or just come up. On FreeBSD 6.x #this often results in a wedged NIC, so do an extra down/up and generate some traffic while read LINE do TRIG=`echo "$LINE"|awk '/vr.: link state changed to UP/ {where = match($0, /vr.:/);if (where) {print substr($0, where, 3)}}'` if [ -n "$TRIG" ] then echo $TRIG /usr/bin/logger "Resetting due to up/down event $TRIG" sleep 5 /sbin/ifconfig $TRIG down /sbin/ifconfig $TRIG up # ping the broadcast address just to generate some traffic. This helps as well /sbin/ping -c 1 -t1 -q `/sbin/ifconfig $TRIG |awk '/broadcast/ {print $6}'` /usr/bin/logger "$TRIG restart done" TRIG="" fi done In syslog, I have kern.* | exec /usr/local/sbin/interface-check.sh ---Mike _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
