On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Sepherosa Ziehau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Jost Tobias Springenberg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Do you mean even low rate traffic like ping? >>> >> Nope that works fine only if I try to transfer i.e. a tarball. >> >>> Things like: >>> - write to IO registers when device is not initialized yet or when >>> device is powered off >>> - write to IO registers that do not exist >>> - Initialize RX/TX ring related IO registers, before RX/TX ring is >>> initialized. >>> - RX/TX ring is not correctly initialized >>> - buffer is (wrongly) freed/trashed when device is doing DMA >> >> What really strikes me is the following: >> I tried 12.1 release and HEAD without any changes, just as they are in the >> repos. >> >> On 12.1 livecd I get the errors that I wrote about in my first post, >> but no freezes at all, even if transferring files (although performance is >> horrible due to the massive timeouts). >> >> While using HEAD the system shows the same behavior but freezes after a few >> pings ... >> >> That suggests that the problem is not due to the changes I made but a more >> general bug !? >> What has changed in the network related areas since 12.1 ? >> May it be related to Sephes changes ? > > Maybe, can you break into DDB when freezing happens?
Its a bug in the driver about how IFF_OACTIVE should be handled. I will work out a fix. Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die
