[rescue] Mysterious Sparc10 hang

[Mike Nicewonger]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001, you wrote:
> i have a sparc10 with dual SM61, 128MB ram, two FSBE cards and a Sun/NSI FDDI
> card (old style, don't know which version, the dual SBus, MIC connectors kind)
> running Solaris 8 and IPfilter as my firewall.
> 
> it works great.  with one exception.  every once in a while (like months apart)
> it'll hang.  no error messages, nothing reported, no crash dump, just flat out
> hang.  only thing i can do is drop it to the ROM and reboot.  does anyone know
> what could possible be wrong?  i ram my sparc5 for a year with zero problems,
> and can't say the same of the ss10.  now that i have a FDDI card that will work
> in the sparc5 (thanks mike!!) i will set that machine back up as the firewall
> i think.  i'd still like to find out what's wrong with the sparc10 since i'd
> like to use it, but i can't have my firewall being so flaky.  especially since
> my DNS server sits on the other side of it, so when it goes down all hell 
> breaks loose on the FDDI rings.
> 
The last time I saw this the problem was a bad CPU.

Mike N