Re: Spooky "crashes in parallel"

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:07:33 +0000 (GMT)


> To my knowledge, the cards were slightly different ne2k variants, and
> Win95 machines with these cards tended to survive.

Same clone chipset or different ? Can you enable NE_SANITY_CHECK in ne.c
and see if it logs anything and set ei_debug to 2.

> The de4x5 based machine has 25 days flawless uptime. In that time, the
> dodgy network has supplied ~10,000 receive errors. There are also ~4,000
> transmit errors.
>
> I have just noticed that collisions are _very_ high (10%, ouch). Perhaps
> another dodgy area is excessive collision handling.

Thats a truely grotty network, but certainly nothing should have broken.

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