G-NIC II Issues.

[Keith Underwood]

Chris,

The list is archived at http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov

A newer driver can be found at
http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~kasten/perf/hamachi/ 
but I'm making no promises that it is necessarily "better".  It did seem
to fix a problem I was having though...

				Keith

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Chris Johns wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> First, is this list archived anywhere ?
> 
> I have started playing with a couple of G-NIC II cards, with RedHat 6.1
> and the 2.2.12-20 kernel supplied with RH6.1.
> 
> I am using `hamachi.c' :
> 
>  static const char *version =
>  "hamachi.c:v0.11 8/21/99  Written by Donald Becker\n"
>  "  	http://www.tidalwave.net/~becker/hamachi.html\n";
> 
> (the www.tidalwave.net version was older!)
> 
> I have a two test machines, both 32bit PCI. A SBC with 300Mhz Celeron
> 128M RAM, and a 486 50MHz 32M RAM (it is just a test system :) ). The
> cards are connected to each other.
> 
> I have a repeatable problem on both machines. If I have the interface
> come up during boot then send ping from the other machine I get a :
> 
>   Kernel panic: skput:over: c20212c9:65532 put:65532 dev eth1
>   In swapper task - not syncing
> 
> This is with the RH6.1 kernel. The "at" address logged when the module
> is loaded is 0x202400.
> 
> I have been able to get a link up how-ever I cannot seem to isolate the
> sequence of ifup/ifdown's to achieve this. I crashed both machines with
> a large flood ping after about 30 seconds once the link was up.
> 
> Regards
> 
> -- 
>  Chris Johns, mailto:ccj@acm.org
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