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

[Martin Johnson]

On 21 May 2008, at 16:24, Moe Sizlak wrote:

> As someone mentioned earlier the problem seems to be entirely vr  
> driver related.
>
> I threw an amdtek nic in (tulip/fxp chipset related) and have had no  
> problems
> with any more hard resets.
>
> I will see how it goes over the next few days but note to
> freebsd/monowall/openbsd developers
> the vr driver is *broken* for soekris net5501.
>
> Not all users but certainly enough.

I seem to recall that PHK made some fixes to FreeBSD's VR driver for  
the net5501, and that those fixes were included in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.

I don't know about monowall, but pfSense 1.2 uses FreeBSD 6.2, with  
6.3 available as a test image.  A test image based on FreeBSD 7.0  
should appear soon, and might be worth trying in your config.

As it happens, I'm hoping that the FreeBSD 7.0 rebuild of pfSense will  
fix an unrelated problem on my net4801 (see http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,9537.0.html 
  ).  pfSense is rebooting under sustained traffic of 30 megabits per  
second.  Ironically enough, this traffic load was created after I  
upgraded some client machines to FreeBSD 7.0, because 7.0 seems to  
have fixed a performance problem in SCP, apparently relating to  
mismatched buffer sizes in OpenSSH.   So now that my boxes can chuck  
files around ten times quicker than before, the firewall has started  
rebooting under the increased load.

- Martin.