On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Steve Baxter wrote:
> > Hello, > > I have posted this hear as I think I have a networking related freebsd > rebooting issue :) > > I am running a couple of FreeBSD boxes both 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD. I am > using to bridge Ethernet over IP using both vtun and netgraph. I am using > the netgraph script in /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge to enable > bridging as native bridging in this cut of code did not seem to work. > > Anyhow, to cut a long sotry short, both of my bridges were working very > very well, I had tested them up to about 90Mb/sec over a public IP network > and the ethernet cards generally lost frames at arounf 5000 frames/sec > mark (about 1 frame in 8000) before the boxes ran into any issues. In the > last week though I have been doing moderate amounts of load on these bpxes > and they have been rebooting as random intervals - somtimes within > minutes of each other. Before this they were working perfectly for 4 > months ! > > What I am after is a way to turn on some form of debugging in order to > find out what is causing this problem. There are no messages left in any > of the var/log files that are of any help. Is there some form of crash > logging or something I can switch on so when the next time it happens I > can do some sort of analysis on the problem. > > > > PS. I am appreciate I am running RELEASE but it has worked for so long and > if anybody can give me a set of steps to upgrade these boxes to a later > rev that can be performed over an ssh session I would be very grateful :-) > do you have ddb in the kernel? do you have a serial console to capture error messages? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
