The net5501 is a great board, but has some low-quality NIC interfaces onboard. The VIA Rhine NICs it uses cause a large amount of interrupts, which quickly exhausts the pool at full tilt and causes a kernel panic. Tried addressing this with polling, but it didn't help much. The only way to get it stable was to rate limit down to about 300Kb/s, otherwise any moderately busy machine would cause this board to segfault.
On 07/26/2010 10:24 AM, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: > Hey, > > I'm using a net5501 as router/gateway running linux, and has eth1 and > eth2 bridged. > When I transfer lange amounts of data from a computer on one of the > NIC's to a computer located on the other NIC, (mostly using Windows > file shares), the Soekris locks up, and gets restarted thanks to the > watchdog. > > I have tried attaching a console to it, but once it freezes, the > console is also frozen (also, it doesn't write anything to the console > about it, like a panic etc.). > > Does anyone have an idea of what might be wrong, since it dies when I > puts some load on the two ports? > I have tried changing it around with eth1 and eth3, and with ports > eth2 and eth3, but it always happens, so I don't expect it to be a > faulty port. > > Best regards, > Bjarke > _______________________________________________ > 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
