Re: Soekris net4501 - repetitive reboots

[Saad Kadhi <saad@docisland.org>]

hello peter,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:28:07PM -0800, Peter Hessler wrote:
> Random reboots in a soekris is likely to be a power problem.  Try 
> getting a different power supply (more volts/amps, within reason of 
> course ;-)
getting a different power supply might solve random reboots but not
(indirectly) triggered ones :-). 

it is very easy to reproduce and works each time. scp the 1GB+ file =>
reboot, no scp => no reboot at all.

other users have the same problem. here are some interesting posts on
soekris-tech [1]:
http://tinyurl.com/28wr7 [2]
http://tinyurl.com/2fcfx [3]

while the first one shows that it can also happen with FreeBSD
(disabling the watchdog solves the problem), the latter URL is
particularly informative. trevor talbot suspects OpenBSD's interrupt
handling.

cheers.
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[3] the actual url is
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