Re: ethernet issue with lombard

Me too. There are 3 new lines in the bmac driver that are in the dbdma_reset .
Ben added them because what they do is also done in darwin. I haven't had a
chance to downgrade my driver and try though. Running in 100tx mode I have
seen it happen whil my bandwidth utilization was very low. I was actually
actively communication each time it got 'gummed up.'

-jeramy b smith



Josh Huber [off-list ref] wrote:

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So, has anyone else had any problems with ethernet on their lombard?
I was having trouble with 2.2.18, so I decided to try upgrading to
2.4.0-* (the 2_3 bk tree, as of this morning).  I thought the problem
was fixed, but perhaps I didn't try long enough to break it.

It seems to be easier to kill the network on a 10Mbit connection,
rather than a 100Mbit connection.

I can kill the network easily with ping -f <ip of local host>

There aren't any helpful messages in any logs (actually, nothing
relating to ethernet).  No errors are shown in ifconfig eth0.

The only fix seems to be to ifdown/ifup the interface.  Anyone else
see this?  The ping -f output looks like the following to me:

PING jd.local (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes

.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

quoted hunk

--- jd.local ping statistics ---

31706 packets transmitted, 31244 packets received, 1% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.4/19.6/106.8 ms

The packets are returned most of the time, until the dots begin to be
displayed quickly. (assuming eth0 is broken at this point)  In a
couple seconds, the dots aren't displayed anymore, so it's unable to
send data.

hmm?

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Josh Huber
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