Subject: port-i386/30009: vr driver problem
To: None <port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/19/2005 10:42:00
>Number: 30009
>Category: port-i386
>Synopsis: built-in Ehternet using vr driver repeated aborts/restarts
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: port-i386-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 19 10:42:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Steve Blinkhorn
>Release: NetBSD 2.0
>Organization:
Psychometric Research & Development Ltd
>Environment:
System: NetBSD body.prd.co.uk 2.0 NetBSD 2.0 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Dec 1 10:58:25 UTC 2004 builds@build:/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/i386/200411300000Z-obj/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
I have several machines all with builtin ethernet using the vr driver.
There is a constant stream of messages: vr0: transmit aborted followed
by vr0: restart, sometimes every couple of seconds, sometimes a minute
apart. I believe this is the cause of very poor NFS performance amongst
other things. There appears to be a lot of material available reporting
problems relating to vr, but nothing suggesting solutions on the 'net.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix: