Re: Linux-1.3.7 (was Re: Networking - the next generation)

Temptation (temp@temptation.interlog.com)
Fri, 7 Jul 1995 15:37:30 -0400 (EDT)

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with what your talking about, but
I'm using 1.3.7 and DE4x5 driver for my SMC PCI combo (dec chipset) BNC
and on another machine two hops and on another NETwork, and it's using
EISA Dec chipset (1.3.7 also), when I do a FTP or NFS from the SMC to
EISA machine, the SMC locks up when transfering large files, usually
anythnig more then 1meg-20megs, I have turn the machine off, or press
the reset. The machine in the middle of these two is ne2000 clone, and
it works from both machines (it's running 1.2.10), I tried changing the
SMC pci machine to 1.2.10 but that didn't help. And all these machines
run other OS's fine and have no networking problems, EG I had Novell4.1
servers running on them all and transfering 500meg files back and forth.

Chris

On Fri, 7 Jul 1995, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> "Jay Estabrook - USG Hardware Support": "Re: Linux-1.3.7 (was Re: Networking - the next generation)" (Jul 6, 15:29):
> > The DE4X5 drivers don't do "insl()", and *should* work out-of-the-box, if
> > you've got the latest from Dave Davies. They work just fine here, with our
> > 1.2.8-based kernels... :-)
>
> So right you are.. I probably remembered the hp100 driver which I had
> been fixing for the new skbuff handling. Good. Then the de4x5 should
> be perfectly fine (the fact that it works for your 1.2.8 based kernels
> doesn't actually guarantee that it works for 1.3.7: in 1.2.8, the
> ethernet packet is aligned on a 8-byte alignment, while in 1.3.7 the
> ethernet packet is unaligned so that the data _in_ the packet would be
> aligned. But looking at the driver it seems it should be fine).
>
>
> "route" and "ifconfig" use ioctls on a socket file descriptor, so they
> don't use any new system calls if that was what you were referring to.
>
> Linus
>