Urgent problem with Interfaces under heavy load

2007-12-25 10:10:00

Hello,

and thanx to all. The only really working solution is to slow down one

of the lines to 10MBit. Not too funny but I have no other possibility.

CU, Dirk.

>> Hello,

>>

>> this is a big cry for help, cause I've no idea what to do.

>>

>> I've an Sun working as a router between two different Fast Ethernet networks.

>> The Sun config is: SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5

>> 320 MB RAM, one additional hme/pci card

>> the interfaces:

>> SUNW,hme0: CheerIO 2.0 (Rev Id = c1) Found

>> SUNW,hme0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1

>> SUNW,hme1: Local Ethernet address = 8:0:20:8f:f8:d3

>> SUNW,hme1 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1/SUNW,hme@1,1

>>

>> Everything works fine. But...

>>

>> if the system gets under heavy load of traffic from one net to the other

>> (ie. round about 10000 packets/sec or more thna 20MBit/sec) one of the

>> interfaces stop to work after a time of roundabout 30-60 seconds.

>> About one or two minutes later the interface is coming back. A typical

>> dump of /var/adm/messages looks like:

>>

>> May 20 08:59:38 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: Link Down - cable problem?

>> May 20 08:59:42 wormhole last message repeated 1 time

>> May 20 08:59:43 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: Using Internal Transceiver

>> May 20 08:59:43 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: 100 Mbps half-duplex Link Up

>> May 20 10:22:43 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: Link Down - cable problem?

>> May 20 10:22:46 wormhole last message repeated 2 times

>> May 20 10:22:48 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: Link Down - cable problem?

>> May 20 10:22:48 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: Using Internal Transceiver

>> May 20 10:22:48 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: 100 Mbps half-duplex Link Up

>> May 20 10:23:43 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: late collision

>> May 20 10:24:02 wormhole last message repeated 2 times

>> May 20 10:25:48 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: Link Down - cable problem?

>> May 20 10:25:52 wormhole last message repeated 2 times

>> May 20 10:25:53 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: Using Internal Transceiver

>> May 20 10:25:53 wormhole unix: SUNW,hme1: 100 Mbps half-duplex Link Up

>>

>>

>> The interfaces changes also sometime to the hme0, so I think it's nothing

>> broken on the cards. The late collision is shown sometimes. I've tried both

>> interfaces with full or half duplex, not really changing anything of this

>> behaviour. The seconds before the interface stuck, a netstat -i looks like:

>>

>> netstat -I hme1 10

>> input hme1 output input (Total) output

>> packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls

>> 19469 21 9847 35 294 29318 21 29312 35 1296

>>

>> This seems to be normal for me under heavy load. With normal load it looks:

>> 232 0 153 0 0 268 0 191 0 0

>>

>>

>> Any idea, any help or any clue ??

>>

>>

>> TIA, Dirk.

>>

>>

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