Re: 2.0.3x -- hanging network interfaces

Daniel Deimert (daniel.deimert@intermec.com)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:10:45 +0100

> > > During periods of high load the eth0 card wedges itself. The eth1
> > > interface remain active. Downing and upping both interfaces clears
>
> One other thing that I noticed is that the the only errors we see on
> the cards are TX errors. On the one occassion when the eth1 interface
> stuck there were a string of transmit errors in the logs as well.

I've seen this too with Linux 2.0.36-pre14 and a 3c509 (without shared
IRQs).
I have until now assumed it was a hardware problem.

First I get a lot of "eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status
e000"
then the eth0 NIC hangs.

eth1 never hangs, and that is a 3c509 too.

-- 
Daniel.Deimert@intermec.com	Intermec Printer AB, Göteborg, Sweden
http://isgot.eu.intermec.com/	Intermec Identification Systems Division


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