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Subject: Re: vxWorks network problems
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: "Steven M. Hartman" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 17:57:25 -0500 
Hi Steven,

On 2011-05-23 Steven M. Hartman wrote:
> Dirk Zimoch wrote:
> > Second incident:
> > An other IOC lost CA connectivity. This time the error message was
> > different:
> > CA beacon (send to "...") error was "ENOBUFS"
> 
> This one is similar to what SNS has seen over the years with mv2100
> and related boards with the DEC network driver. The precipitating
> event is a temporary loss of the physical network layer (i.e.
> unplugged network cable to IOC, or edge network switch powered
> down). It looks like a buggy network driver that cannot recover from
> this fault when there are lots of UDP packets queuing in the
> outgoing buffers. This one does not seem to be recoverable except by
> a reboot so we have taken steps to reduce the likelihood of loosing
> the physical link. We do not see this with other boards.

I found and fixed a few issues in the dec21x40End.c driver for vxWorks 5.5.x 
in 2009.  The main one was to make DMA underflow a recoverable event (which 
might be relevant to this problem), but I also fixed the packet counting which 
wasn't working properly in this driver.  I believe I sent Dave Thompson my 
fixes at the time, but whether they got into the SNS version or not I don't 
know.

On a related question, have you ever heard of an mv2100 BSP for vxWorks 6.x?  
I'm currently working on upgrading the mv2700 BSP from 6.4 to 6.8, but I can't 
find an mv2100 BSP for any 6.x OS version at the Wind River website.

- Andrew
-- 
Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
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