Quoting Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>:
When I do a "build.sh build sets" on another machine and then copy the binary sets via NFS, my machine silently resets. The same happens when doing a "installworld". Copying the sets via scp works though. I haven't yet tested other archs, but my gut feeling blames if_mec ;-) Please prove me wrong.
This rings a bell... look at rev 1.12 of if_mec.c:
"sprinkle delay() and mec_mii_wait() in MII access functions
with this I no longer get spontaneous reboots during network
traffic"
Perhaps macallan@ has more wisdom for you. I don't understand why
if_mec would have been resetting the system like that. Is 1.12 a fix
or a dirty hack?
It may be interesting to know if a PCI NIC causes similar trouble, but you have no riser ;)
Steve