hi,
i'm working on this
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 hayward@slothmud.org wrote:
>
> Well,
> I thought the problems with the eepro driver from 2.2.16 were fixed in
> 2.2.17. Apparently the problems really weren't fixed - it did seem to get
> more stable though.
>
> I was copying some large over a NFS mount and when it got to about 6 megs,
> the NFS mount hung with symptoms similar to the 2.2.16 problems I had.
> Which was: no errors in the messages log, a hung NFS mount and reloading
> the driver module clears the problem up.
>
> So I started doing some tests with ping to see how long it would stay up.
> During those tests, I noticed some wierd DUP packets:
>
> 64 bytes from 1.2.3.4: icmp_seq=28 ttl=255 time=0.4 ms
> 64 bytes from 1.2.3.4: icmp_seq=18 ttl=255 time=10894.5 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 1.2.3.4: icmp_seq=29 ttl=255 time=0.4 ms
>
> They were all between 10-20 behind the icmp_seq and had at least a 6000ms
> time.
>
> In the middle of a 40meg nfs copy, the driver hung at least 4 times - but
> at fairly random intervals. Sometimes it will run for a long time -
> sometimes it locks up twice in a row fairly fast.
>
> With the 2.2.14 and previous drivers I did not once notice an error with
> this card. The only msg/error I see in the messages log is this:
> eth1: set Rx mode to 1 address.
>
> But I've got that message for years now with the eepro driver.
>
> If anyone familiar with this driver wishes to work with me in an attempt
> to reproduce this problem, I'd be happy to help.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Hayward
>
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