Re: Strange portmap/NFS error in 2.1.x

Chris Powell (helios@brickandivy.com)
Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:57:11 -0400

> We had a similar problem here once. Basically, the NIC would sit
> there and probe out of each port in turn, before deciding on BNC. The
> interesting thing was that the time that it took to probe was just
> long enough for a nameserver query to time out - meaning that the very
> first NFS volume listed in fstab that wasn't in /etc/hosts would fail,
> and everything else would work... fixed by changing the probe order
> for the card to try the right port first.

Hmm... You're correct, we have BNC / TP cards, but they're set in the
card setup to BNC, rather than autoprobe. Unless the kernel itself is
overriding this and attempting to probe all the interfaces...

It seems the only way to specifically tell 3c59x.c (the driver) to look
at BNC _only_ is to compile the driver as a module and send it commands
with "append." But I fear that the driver has nothing to do with this --
v0.45 works fine under 2.0.30, so there's no reason to think it's
behaving badly under 2.1.x, is there? I suspect the kernel...

Regards,
Chris Powell

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