On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Sepherosa Ziehau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Can you test following patch on HEAD: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/if_an_oactive.diff Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die
