[mythtv-users] Reproduceable frontend freeze?

[Eloy A. Paris]

"Alan Snyder" <ax763 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Is this a remote frontend?  I could induce a freeze in the same way and it
> appears to have been my old 3COM 3C595 network card.  These older cards
> don't auto-negotiate properly and can end up in half duplex when the rest of
> the network is full duplex.  When there's a lot of network traffic, you end
> up with the card or the Vortex driver (don't know which) freezing.  The
> symptom in Myth is a frozen frontend, but if this is your problem you should
> also see that all network connectivity is lost.  "options 3c59x
> options=0x204" (0x200 = full duplex, 0x004 = 100baseT) in modules.conf
> appears to have cured it (use of options= is recommended only for cards that
> don't autonegotiate properly).

Nope, both the backend and the frontend are in the same machine.

Eloy.-