I can download large files from the internet through it without problems (20mbit download speed), so it can forward that amount without a problem.
The funny thing is, that it's not always the same amount of trafic I need to crash it, sometimes I can transfer several GB at 100mbit across the bridge without problems (untill it suddenly dies), and then maybe just a few megs before it does again. 2010/7/26 Irrational Pi <[email protected]>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
