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List:       suse-ppc
Subject:    Re: Beige G3 on-board ethernet problems
From:       Olaf Hering <olh () suse ! de>
Date:       2001-02-19 12:43:41
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On Mon, Feb 19, nicola moretti wrote:

> > I never had that bug with our beige G3, there are some different chipset
> > revisions.
> 
> Three "official" logic board revisions, as far as I can tell from
> Apple's tech spec DB (maybe even more "actual" revs? Apple doesn't
> always roll minor modifications to new part numbers). Being it a 233 G3,
> I guess that I'm using the oldest one.
> I have two identical G3s here, one of them 100% for testing: if you
> want, I can make whatever further testing you may need for identifying
> this bug; just drop me a note.

There is a hardware bug in some/all bmac chips. The current driver put
only one packet in the transmit queue, so 2.2.18 should be safe.

> > Please tell me what you do exactly with nmap.
> > Maybe I can trigger that bug here.
> 
> Nothing strange: two or three 'nmap -sT -O' are usually enough to crash.
> But if you haven't encountered the problem yet, I guess that you'll
> never hit it at all: my machines crash anyways, with or without nmap,
> it's just a matter of patience... (3-5 days average uptime, with very
> very light system load)

I will try that.



Gruss Olaf

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