Hi,

i am experiencing problems using a RB44GV into a Soekris 5501-70 board with R3.30

My setup is 2x1Gbps links between the Soekris via RB44GV to RB1000 in a balanced-rr/mii-type1 bonding grup.

What happens is that whenever i try to do a bandwidth test, the Soekris board crashes after a few megabytes transmitted.
This does not occur if i am using the onboard fast ethernet interfaces of the 5501-70.

Any thoughts ?

Hi,

i am experiencing problems using a RB44GV into a Soekris 5501-70 board with R3.30

My setup is 2x1Gbps links between the Soekris via RB44GV to RB1000 in a balanced-rr/mii-type1 bonding grup.

What happens is that whenever i try to do a bandwidth test, the Soekris board crashes after a few megabytes transmitted.
This does not occur if i am using the onboard fast ethernet interfaces of the 5501-70.

Any thoughts ?

I have the same problem just with the onboard Soekris NET4801 card... A RB133 performs better than a Soekris, and does not crash under heavy load.

But try and tjeck the log or setup a external log...
And under low loads does it also crash then?

Hi,

it does not crash with the onboard cards (also VIA) nor does it crash with a single port gigabit card (intel chipset) i had handy for testing.

It only crashes when im using the quad gigabit card in the pci slot.

I did enable logging to internal file, but there's nothing in that log that would explain this, also i belive that enabling external logging wont do much good, as the box crashes and no ip packets are being sent out afterwards.

Otherwise, the 5501 performs ok under load, no crashes.

Ok, i can confirm it crashes with any card placed on the PCI Slot... may be a PCI transfer problem ...