On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Thomas Schenk wrote:
>
> On 11-Feb-98 Patrick D. Wildi wrote:
> > Could anybody sugest a good (or any) method for debugging my
> >
> > mysterious reboots.
> > Every few hours to few days one of my linux boxes restarts
> > without
> > leaving any indications in the log files (I administrate
> > this machine
> > remotely). I have these problems since I replaced on old
> > server with
> > this new HW. The software running is pretty much the same.
> >
> > The linux is a networking (masquerading, diald, ppp) and
> > file
> > server (samba) for a bnunch of Win95 machines.
> >
> >
> > The HW:
> > Pentium II (Dell Poweredge), 64 MB RAM
> > Adaptec AIC-7880 SCSI controller
> > 2 Western Digital 4MB (WDE4360-1807A3)
> > 1 3com 3c905 10/100 Ethernet card (used at 10 Mbit)
> > UPS
> >
> > The SW:
> > based on Slackware 3.4 distribution
> > kernel 2.0.33 with patches: aic7xxx-5.0.5, 3c59x.c v0.49
> > ld.so-1.9.5, libc 5.4.33
> > diald 0.16.4
> > samba 1.9.18p2
> > squid 1.1.20
> >
>
> I can't help you with debugging the crashes, but I do have a suggestion.
> We have been experiencing similar problems on our production systems and
> have found that replacing the 3c905 cards with Kingston KNE100TX cards and
> using the de4x5 driver that comes with the 2.1.78 kernel (v0.533) that our
> problems have been greatly reduced. The other thing you could try would
> be to revert to the 0.47H version of the 3c59x driver. We found that that
> version was more stable.
>
> Tom
>
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