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

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Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2008/05/18 12:56, Peter van Oord van der Vlies wrote:
>   
>> I have the same issue on openbsd 4.2(not tried 4.3 yet)
>>     
>
> 4.3 won't help this problem.
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> "ifconfig vr# media auto" (replace # with the correct number)
> should also unwedge it. I also see this when I repeatedly
> plug/unplug a connection to some types of switch.
>
> Affected interfaces can transmit but not receive.
>   

This sound exactly like the problem I've been having with my soekris
running OpenBSD 4.2. I've usually solved it by logging on the serial
console and doing ifconfig vr1 down/up. Nice to hear that it probably
isn't hardware related.

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