Marcus Agehall wrote: > I'm having problems with my fileserver, which is still running the svn_66 > build. > > When I push a lot of data from my clients to it, it seems like the > NIC just gives up after a while and gives me the following in the > /var/adm/messages: > > Jun 23 19:21:54 ironforge rge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: rge0: link down > (initialized) > Jun 23 19:21:54 ironforge in.routed[582]: [ID 238047 daemon.warning] > interface rge0 to 192.168.0.100 turned off > Jun 23 19:21:58 ironforge rge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: rge0: link up > 1000Mbps Full_Duplex (initialized) > Jun 23 19:21:58 ironforge in.routed[582]: [ID 300549 daemon.warning] > interface rge0 to 192.168.0.100 restored > Jun 23 19:22:08 ironforge rge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: rge0: link up > 1000Mbps Full_Duplex (initialized) > Jun 23 19:22:08 ironforge rge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: rge0: link down > (initialized) > Jun 23 19:22:08 ironforge in.routed[582]: [ID 238047 daemon.warning] > interface rge0 to 192.168.0.100 turned off > Jun 23 19:22:12 ironforge rge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: rge0: link up > 1000Mbps Full_Duplex (initialized) > Jun 23 19:22:12 ironforge in.routed[582]: [ID 300549 daemon.warning] > interface rge0 to 192.168.0.100 restored > Jun 23 19:34:00 ironforge rge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: rge0: link up > 1000Mbps Full_Duplex (initialized) > > It seems my windows clients survives a few hickups, but after a > little while, they choke on them and abort the transfer. The same problem > seems > to appear when running iperf over a period of 60s or so. > > I've been trying to track this problem down for a while now, > basically getting nowhere. Since I can replicate the problem with iperf, I > think I > can pretty much conclude that it's not related to samba/zfs, but rather > the rge driver or some other hardware in my system. > > Anyone have any ideas? If there is any additional information I can > post to help track down my problems, feel free to ask. I simply don't > know what to post, since everything I've looked at looks ok to me...
have you looked at the switch and the cables involved? One thing you could try is using different ports on the switch and/or different cables (but only change one thing at a time, test, record results, repeat ;-). Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
