Bug 28253

Summary: VIA Rhine (I) reboots/crashes FreeBSD 4.2 with heavy network load
Product: Base System Reporter: Dejan Oljaca <dwing>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Dejan Oljaca 2001-06-18 10:20:00 UTC 
Huge File Transfers will reboot/crash the FreeBSD box when using this network card (VIA Rhine I, any mode 10/100MBit, half-full-duplex). Using other OS didn't show up this problem to be hardware-related (tried with WinNT). Also using another NIC solved the problem.

Fix: 

Change the NIC!
How-To-Repeat: Copy huge files from CD/DVD from/to FreeBSD box (using FTP or SAMBA) and wait...sometimes reboot with panic or just hang up (no network access).
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-19 10:25:15 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Panic traceback requested from submitter
Comment 2 Kris Kennaway 2001-08-19 10:25:37 UTC 
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:11:14AM -0700, Dejan Oljaca wrote:

> Copy huge files from CD/DVD from/to FreeBSD box (using FTP or SAMBA)
> and wait...sometimes reboot with panic or just hang up (no network
> access).


There is no way we can solve this problem unless you give us a panic
traceback from a debugging kernel, as an absolute minimum.  See 

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

for more information.

Kris
Comment 3 Kris Kennaway 2001-08-19 11:21:36 UTC 
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:14:22PM +0200, Dejan Oljaca wrote:
> Hi Kris,
> 
> sorry for the missing traceback. As I already replaced the NIC with another 
> one, it will be difficult for me to reproduce the crash. The only thing I 
> saw was that it crashed in different modules (looking for the source code 
> containing the panic message). Sometimes even the TCP/IP stack was 
> 'disconnected' from the NIC without a reboot.
> 
> My guess is, that the VIA rhine chipset is not the best one (except cheap).


Could well be.  If you're no longer able to reproduce this problem,
I'll close the PR.

Kris
Comment 4 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-20 10:34:22 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Submitter is no longer able to obtain details about this problem.