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Ramprasad Rao

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Aug 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/21/00
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Is there a reference for this (Apple TIL?)


On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>
> I'm pretty sure something is wrong with the hardware, but there exist
> some software workarounds (at least according to Darwin sources).
>


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Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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Aug 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/21/00
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>MeToo. On my iMac 333 (BMAC) if the load is too high eth0 becomes
>unreachable. This became so frustrating especially if I'm connected
>remotely. I have a script which now pings my hub every so often
>and brings eth0 down and then up.
>
>Glad I'm not the only one. I thought something was wrong with the
>hardware. The odd thing is that it does not happen to my machine
>at home which is exactly the same.

MATSUURA Takanori

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Aug 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/22/00
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I'm now using PowerMac G3 DT/233 with linux-2.2.17pre18.

Since 2.2.15pre15 or so, hosts over eth0 (BMAC) are suddenly
unreachable several times per day. When eth0 is unreachable, the load
average of this machine is high.

If I'm lucky, I can type the following commands.
$ su -
# ifdown eth0
# ifup eth0
And then, eth0 is recovered. But sometimes I cannot type any commands.

eth1 (via-rhine) has no problem. Users over eth1 tell me eth0 is
unreachable when he/she accesses the sites with low network response.

Is BMAC driver something broken?


MATSUURA Takanori @ Division of Protein Chemistry,
Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan
E-Mail: t-ma...@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp
Web Page: http://www.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/chemistry/matsuura/

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