Mace and Bmac ethernet drivers [was: Occasional crash reports]

Iain Sandoe iain at sandoe.co.uk
Sun Aug 19 10:26:45 EST 2001


On Sat, Aug 18, 2001,  Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:16:58PM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote:
>> as I say, booting with the BootX *init* (rather than the application) bmac,
>> at least, seems reliable on g3/beige (don't use Mace much).

> What's your best uptime for the g3?  I have one setup as a ipsec
> gateway/firewall, and it didn't last over 28 days.  Add a tulip card (it
> already had one for firewall, now has two...) and I now have 70 days uptime.

Hmmm.  The g3/beige is my dev box - the interval between reboots for new
kernels is much less than that ;-)

I don't (necessarily) think this is the same problem - with the corruption I
was seeing  booting using the BootX *app* I was struggling to get 2 hours
uptime ... it was crashing with illegal instruction oopses in the network
stack.

ciao,
Iain.

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