On Thu, 11 May 2000, Sean Hunter wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:54:59AM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Tim Hockin wrote:
> > >
> > > > We're seeing a stack of stalls with the eepro100
> > >
> > > We're having lots of trouble with eepro100 and Cisco switches - apparently
> > > after some quiescent period, the eepro stops responding until outgoing
> > > traffic is generated. We're working on isolating it, but I don't know if
> > > it is actually an eepro issue, or a cisco issue yet. Just thought I'd
> > > throw it out for anyone to add a "me too!", or more info.
> > >
> >
> > Interesting. There are several identical reports for the 3com drivers.
> > The so-called "sleepy NIC" problem, where a NIC which is completely idle
> > for 20-30 minutes loses its ability to receive.
>
> This isn't our problem. The NICs are very active (running remote
> xapps mostly) when we see stalls. We use eepro100, though, so it looks
> like two seperate but equal bugs here.
Those were the same kinds of bugs I was seeing. Have you tried the
updated driver?
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