EibPC muss öfters neu gestartet werden

[martenss]

I have been trying to capture reproduction information about this IP-itf lock-up over the past weeks.

This is what I gathered:
- the problem usually happens after about 6-7 days normal operation, but not always as I got one 14 days run without issues. I interrupted this one as I could not further postpone adding some functionality.
- during the problem only the IP itf is affected, the EIB over RS232 is still running fine
- tcpdump shows no single activity on the ethernet phy when pinging etc
- during last occurrence I did get a half-refreshed webserver page where the time of blockage was visible (16.31pm).
In my DSL modem log I could find a DHCP request from the EibPC at 16.28:
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:28:02 GMT DHCP SERVER: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.2 to 00:50:c2:79:30:9a via br0
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:28:02 GMT DHCP SERVER: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.2 from 00:50:c2:79:30:9a via br0
which proofs that something goes wrong with the itf at lease time expiry or at least during interaction with the DHCP server.

I now switched to fixed IP and will further observe the EibPC IP itf stability.

Hope this helps to find the root cause.

Best regards, Sammy

[enertegus]

In my DSL modem log I could find a DHCP request from the EibPC at 16.28:
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:28:02 GMT DHCP SERVER: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.2 to 00:50:c2:79:30:9a via br0
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:28:02 GMT DHCP SERVER: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.2 from 00:50:c2:79:30:9a via br0
which proofs that something goes wrong with the itf at lease time expiry or at least during interaction with the DHCP server.

I now switched to fixed IP and will further observe the EibPC IP itf stability.

Hope this helps to find the root cause.

Best regards, Sammy

Thanks a lot! That will help a lot - it will take til Tuesday to have a closer look, as tomorrow there are public holidays here in Bavaria.

[enertegus]

I have been trying to capture reproduction information about this IP-itf lock-up over the past weeks.

Sammy, just one more question:
Do you have an 24h-open Internet Explorer Connection?

[martenss]

Not exactly 24h, but IE or Firefox are usually open for a big part of the day showing refreshes every few seconds. This is actually a question I had as well: how to avoid refreshes if there is nothing updated on the page? Looks like all pages are considered, so not only the one being displayed?

I would not say the problem is related to IE, experienced the same with Firefox.

Besides this I have disappointing news as the IP itf is currently down again, only 3,5 days after I switched to fixed IP. The previous theory on DHCP server interaction doesn't seem to be the right one.

The EibPC is currently in this state, let me know if I could read out something via a (hidden?) debug port.

[enertegus]

I would not say the problem is related to IE, experienced the same with Firefox.

We have discovered, that there might exists an overflow due to a smaller bug in the html file generated by the EibPC. We will fix it ASAP and provide a new beta version.
Sorry for the inconvience.