[linux-dvb] Re: System reboots-hangs up while routing or bridging multicast data

[Wolfgang Wershofen <wolfgang@wershofen.com>]

Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 at 12:31 marius marin wrote:

> We have problems keeping our system stable while routing or bridging
> multicast data under the following configuration:
>   - Pentium 3 800 Mhz 256 MB ram
>   - RedHat Linux 7.3 , Kernel 2.4.18.4 (also with Kernel 2.4.18.3)
>   - eth card: 3com - 3c59x
>   - Hauppauge WinTV DVB-s card or Hauppauge WinTV Nexus card
>   - the driver is V 0.9.4
>   - mrouted-3.9-beta3-4
>   - dvbtune 0.3
>  In particular, the system temporarily hangs up or reboots completely after
> a  period ranging from 2 minutes to 8 hours from startup of the network
> services, without any warning nor error log.

This issue has been addressed serveral times before in this list. Look
into the archive for further reference.

To keep it short: There seems to be a bug in the multicasting
functionality of the DVB-s firmware (AFAIR). I have no information, that
this is going to be fixed in the near future.

Only possible solution: Replace the DVB-s card with WinTV nova or TT
budget card. These cards don't have any firmware and
multicast-networking runs without any problems.

-- 
Best regards
Wolfgang Wershofen                            mailto:wolfgang@wershofen.com



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