crgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) (08/09/88)
I've been having problems with NFS and Ethernet on a CS-12 and I was wondering if anyone else was having the same problems. I've got a CS-12 with 4 380 meg disks, 3 of which are mounted via NFS to a number of 4Ds. Under 3.0 I used to get the message "if_enp0: firmware died and restarted" followed by "if_enp0: failed to restart" and then no Ethernet operations would work until a reboot or /etc/init.d tcp stop and /etc/init.d/tcp start. This would happen 2 to 3 times a week. Under 3.0 Rev B I haven't gotten these messages yet (only been running it 2 days) but after about a day and a half of heavy trafic on the CS-12 I get ALOT of NFS timeouts on the 4Ds onto which the CS-12's drives are mounted on. Also, I was using bootp to upgrade one system without a tape drive with one that had a tape drive and on the one with the tape drive I was getting "if_enp0: firmware died and restarted" messages a couple of times during the remote tape operations which hosed my update. I got this same symptom on 2 different systems. (both 4Ds) I've talked to SGI about this and they were going to test their Ethernet driver under heavy load since that was where the problem seemed to lie. I haven't heard anything back from them yet on the outcome. Archer, are you out there ? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rob Gabbard | UUNET: uunet!sdrc!crgabb Workstation Systems Programmer | PHONE: (513)576-2600 Structural Dynamics Research Corporation | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=