On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:25:03AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Sascha Klauder wrote: > >I've got a Soekris vpn1401 card to help with GELI disk en- > >cryption. Reading from a GELI volume is causing the system to > >freeze completely, which does not happen if software crypto is > >used (i.e. hifn.ko not loaded). I can't enter kernel debugger > >(ctrl+alt+esc doesn't work anymore) and my (remote) kgdb-fu > >isn't up to par anyway. > > I've had the exact same kind of issue with the vpn1401 PCI card in a > Dell box for my firewall running pfSense (at the tie it was based on > FreeBSD 6.1 I believe). It would lock up the firewall within 2 hours > to 4 days of uptime. Once we removed the card, no lockups. Soekris > never responded to my questions about such behavior.
Interesting. But then, like I already wrote, I had it running fine for months on 6.2-STABLE. Now that both 6.3 and 7.0 exhibit this lockup behaviour, I naturally suspected some issue with the driver, even more so since revision 1.40 seems to have brought in several changes. > I blame the card. Hmpf. Cheers, -sascha _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
