Message-ID: <3CAC6660.9879305A@morganstanley.com> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 09:42:40 -0500 From: Narender Muthyala <Narender.Muthyala@morganstanley.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] happy meal unhappy
Try changing to half duplex.
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Kross Joachim ICM N PG U ID A 1 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when looking through the archives, I found that other people had trouble
> with ethernet cards before, also with the happy meal interface. However, I
> did not find an answer that would help me with my problem, which is the
> following:
>
> I recently installed SuSE Linux 7.3 with the default kernel (uname -a gives:
> Linux ouessant 2.4.14 #1 Mon Nov 12 11:25:00 GMT 2001 sparc64 unknown
> ) on a Sun Ultra 1. At first, I was quite happy, the machine was doing its
> job as a nameserver for a small development network (not much traffic going
> to or from the machine, just a few telnet sessions, ntp, DNS queries, and
> the like). However, after a few days, it stopped responding to connection
> requests from the network, and existing connections froze, and eventually
> died, e.g. the windows from X clients transmitted to another machine
> disappeared. UDP didn't work any longer, either. However, interestingly, the
> machine seemed to still respond to ARP queries, at least other machines had
> entries for the machine in their ARP tables, which expired and were renewed,
> e.g. when trying to ping the machine after it had stopped responding for
> hours.
>
> While the console was still accessible and everything else on the machine
> (i.e. things that did not depend on the network) was working fine, only a
> reboot of the machine would alleviate the situation, a restart of the
> networking would not do.
>
> In /var/log/messages, the following messages could be seen reappearing about
> once a minute:
>
> Apr 4 15:38:18 ouessant kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Apr 4 15:38:18 ouessant kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting
> Apr 4 15:38:18 ouessant kernel: eth0: Happy Status 03030000
> TX[000003ff:00000301]
> Apr 4 15:38:22 ouessant kernel: eth0: Link is up using internal transceiver
> at 100Mb/s, Full Duplex.
>
> The built-in ethernet card was detected automatically during installation,
> here is what the driver says when booting the machine:
>
> Apr 4 15:43:08 ouessant kernel: sunhme.c:v1.99 12/Sep/99 David S. Miller
> (davem@redhat.com)
> Apr 4 15:43:08 ouessant kernel: eth0: HAPPY MEAL (SBUS) 10/100baseT
> Ethernet 08:00:20:89:0f:f5
>
> The problem appears to depend to a certain degree on the network traffic
> going to and from the machine. I.e. while it was first sitting rather idle
> for a few days before stopping the first time, it seems that large amounts
> of data transferred (e.g. downloads of large packages) seem to shorten the
> time before the machine stops.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not have another machine to see whether it might be a
> hardware problem. However, the machine was running Solaris 8 fine before I
> installed Linux, and the Boot-PROM tests (e.g. test net-all) do not report
> any errors.
>
> I am afraid I have lost a lot of time already trying to figure out by myself
> what might be wrong, however I am no kernel hacker or even too good a
> programmer to even try delving into the kernel sources, so I have come to my
> wits end on this one. If I don't find a solution real soon, I fear I'll have
> to put Solaris back onto the machine, as the DNS server, while not very
> busy, is rather critical to our current project. As I would strongly prefer
> to keep Linux, which I am using on Intel machines without trouble, I would
> really appreciate any help and advice you could give. If you need any other
> information on the machine for that, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Joachim
>
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