Re: 2.2.13 & high network load

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
14 Dec 1999 23:59:18 GMT

In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.10.9912141729450.13807-100000@eos.dobrich.net>,
<vasil@eos.dobrich.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>I have a problem with stock 2.2.13.I have a machine that serves web traffic
>at about 10Mbps (as mrtg says),and recently,with the bandwith increase from
>5 to 10 Mbit I had interesting problems - after about 14 hours of serving
>trafic at about 10Mbit,the machine stopped responding to pings.

I've seen this with the tulip, epic100 and eepro100 drivers. You're
seeing it with:

>3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
>http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xec00, 00:10:4b:d3:b0:44, IRQ 9

All of these drivers were written by Donald Becker. One or 2 weeks
ago someone found a basic mistake in most of the drivers from Donald,
and posted patches for the tulip driver. Someone else posted a pointer
to a new eepro100 driver, which I am using now and which works fine
without locking up. Hopefully Donald is following this list and will
fix his drivers .. both 2.2.1X and 2.3.x really need those fixes.

Mike.

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