Interesting... Lately I've been experiencing some strange problems with some of our routers as well. I'll play with the releases to see if they problem is triggered by the new kernel.
Jim TerWee wrote:
I have seen the same thing when running two or more wireless cards and you put a heavy load on the unit you can lock it in about two or three minutes. This just started with the 2.4.20 kernel. Here is the testing I have done so far. Hardware: Soekris 4521 Engenius 200MW cards firmware 1.5.6 Dell Pentium II 450 3c509 ethernet card 4 - PLX adapters (also tried with Ricoh PCMCIA adapters) 4 - Engenius 200MW cards firmware 1.5.6 Intel motherboard with Celeron 1 gig processor Realtek ethernet adapter 4 - PLX adapters (also tried with Ricoh PCMCIA adapters) 4 - Engenius 200MW cards firmware 1.5.6
All of the above work perfectly with the 2.4.18 releases I actually had upgraded several other units and ended up downgrading back to the 2.4.18 releases so they would be stable. The only change I make to the stock release is that I add shorewall and I do not use zebra. I just edit the ifup and add static routes there.
On the Soekris units the hardware watchdog takes care of the lockups and will reboot the unit. On the other systems they lock solid no console messages or anything. You do maintain a link but all data stops dead.
If I install just one card using either a PLX adapter or PCMCIA adapter everything works great. As soon as you add the second card even if you are not using it to move data you will lock up. Normally about 120 meg at a 4 meg transfer rate will do it.
I am going to try the latest CVS from Jouni to see if this helps tomorrow sometime.
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