So I just bought a lan1741 for my six-year-old net5501 (running the latest stable Linux kernel), because four ports just isn't *enough*. Unfortunately, it seems to not work entirely well.
Enough packet flow over any ports on the lan1741 (not necessarily tiny packets either: a few thousand 1500-byte packets a second are enough) causes the net5501 to spontaneously reboot within a couple of minutes. The kernel never gets a look in, as far as I can see: the reset is immediate, nothing is logged, nothing is asserted. There is no such problem with the built-in ports (as long as the flow doesn't also involve a port on the lan1741), so my initial suspicion that the thing might be running out of power seems to be disproved. As it is, I have four ports on this machine that I can use only for things that might just about fill a 10MiB/s network or maybe even less (I haven't looked for the boundaries of this behaviour, though I might get out iperf and try). VoIP works on it, but anything heftier, like wifi, tends to cause reboots as soon as someone tries to, say, run a backup or do an apt-get or a pile of NFS traffic over that interface. So... has anyone seen this sort of thing before? Is this a known problem with the lan1741? -- NULL && (void) _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
