Re: 3c59x fatal timeout with 2.2.7-ac1

Peter Desnoyers (pjd@fred001.dynip.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:51:29 -0400 (EDT)


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > ifconfig eth0 down, ifconfig eth0 up ... , which restored the network,
> > but with enormous delays in all traffic, e.g. ping. Only ifconfig
> > eth0 down; modprobe -r 3c59x; /etc/init.d/network (reloading the
> > module) restored normal functionality. The system itself did not
>
> Known problem with the 3c590 and the driver.

I've seen similar problems with 2.2.5 (RH 6.0 plus PPTP masq patches).
In my case it's with an ne2k-pci. It's not only the RH6.0 ping bug, as
TCP connections have slowed to a painful crawl from time to time, and are
fixed by running network down and then network up.

If I see it in a newer kernel I'll poke around some...

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