Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.0.26 problems | Date | Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:37:19 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I heard this Aiee problem from other people as well and the common point > was the Adaptec 7xxx card (maybe NFS was also a common point, I do not > know). We also have heavily loaded 5x86/133 server with SMC Ultra and
I no longer run adaptec SCSI cards. Even a freebie 2940 I stuck in our news server came and bit me. I guess its the drivers but since Adaptec wont help people write Linux drivers I buy Buslogic.
> The other problem is SMP related. When changing the keyboard leds under X > with CapsLock the machine sometimes freezes for a few seconds. During that > it does not respond to ping and the mouse pointer does not move. The > machine comes back to life after a few seconds.
I've had 2 or 3 people with this. Even one with an identical board to me who gets it when I don't. Its in the mysterious section.
> The third problem is related to bridging and ppp. Take a normal ppp > dial-in server on an ethernet network whith IP-forwarding enabled. Compile > a kernel with experimental bridge support. Start a ppp connection and > issue brcfg -ena. After that the remote ppp client stopps seing the ppp
Known. One reason the bridge is experimental.
ALan
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