[520] in NetBSD-Development
Network problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 6 03:10:28 1995
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 03:12:21 -0500
To: sdfranks@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
I've come up with a workaround for the 3c509 problem. Try copying
/afs/athena/user/g/h/ghudson/projects/rnet/rnet to
/usr/local/bin/rnet, and running it as:
/usr/local/bin/rnet &
This will reset your network interface every five seconds using a C
program that does the interface reset as quickly as possible. See if
you stop having trouble with falling off the net, and also see if you
notice any new problems crop up (like syslogs complaining about the
network being down). If things work okay, you can add the line
"/usr/local/bin/rnet &" to your /etc/rc.local file to have it run at
startup time.
I've just started running this, and I think it should work pretty
well. I used to run a shell script that ran "ifconfig ep0 down;
ifconfig ep0 up" but that left the interface down for long enough that
other programs would die. It would be better to fix the driver bug,
but we're still working on that (I need to bring my machine into the
SIPB office so that other people can work on it).
