[Soekris] hard reset required on soekris box when connecting via xp (non-html)

[Peter van Oord van der Vlies]

Hello,


On Sun, 18 May 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> On 2008-05-18, Moe Sizlak <sizlak1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I have had a net5501 running monowall 1.3b11 for about a month now
>> but find that most days after cold booting my XP box I need to hard reset
>> my soekris box to connect.
>
I have the same issue on openbsd 4.2(not tried 4.3 yet)

Sometimes it will not allow any traffic on the interface that is connected 
by a cross-cable. Only on machines that runs VISTA/XP i had this issue.
The only solution was reset. the soekris.

> This is almost certainly an interaction between the vr(4) driver
> and the NIC in the 5501 (it also affects the PCEngines alix but not
> most other supported chips). If you can connect from another machine
> and force it to disable/re-enable the interface (or force the media
> type to change) it should come back up without rebooting.
>
> I believe I noticed it happening more often when using the auto-
> crossover (i.e. connecting to a PC using a straight cable).
>
> When certain devices are plugged into the NIC first (e.g.
> Thinkpad X40) it stops this problem from happening (i.e. plug
> in a good device, then replace with one that normally has the
> problem, then the problem won't occur).
>
> ...so you might try plugging the linux box into the port for
> the XP box when it first boots, then change it over.
>
> The other way is to plug in a switch that stays powered-up, since
> this behaviour is associated with losing link to the nic.
>
> It's meant to be working ok in the newer vr(4) driver on FreeBSD 7+
> (m0n0wall is based on older FreeBSD 6.3), but as far as I'm aware
> the relevant part to fix just this problem hasn't been isolated
> from the huge number of changes (both style and code) in the same
> commit.
>
> This definitely also affects OpenBSD, it looks like also NetBSD
> and DragonFlyBSD as well as FreeBSD <=6..
>
>
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