> The 31 pre-patch did not substitute the drivers/net/3c59x.c driver
> (version 0.25) with a more recent one that deals with newer 3c90x cards.
> The latest driver (v0.42) can be found at
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c59x.c
Ah but how stable is 0.42? 0.40 and 0.41 were a bit of a disaster I'm
afraid. The version of 3c59x.c in 2.0.31-pre2 is the only version I've
ever used that has been stable for our setup here. Currently...
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
lo: 944037 0 0 0 0 944037 0 0 0 0 0
eth0:660357271 52 52 0 85 257345343 12 12 0 2501574 2754
And no Tx-hangs :-)
We do have a couple of stuck sockets however, one in "CLOSE" and another
in "CLOSE_WAIT". This is after 50 days. Perhaps thay are attribuatable to
the random TCP memory leaks etc. Alan mentioned in that informative mail
on the state of 2.0.30 networking.
I'd be very happy to hear the hangs are fixed in 0.42...?
Chris