Re: PROBLEM: Losing network connectivity with 2.2.10

Brian Leeper (qaz@eni.net)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:24:41 -0400 (EDT)

> There are two very interesting datapoints you could give us
>
> 1) If after a few weeks, the de4x5 driver hasn't dropped the network, we
> can be reasonably sure of a serious problem in the tulip.c driver
> (possibly a generic flaw because I've had hassles with 3c59x.c too)

One of the machines has been running the de4x5 driver for 8 days without a
problem.

> 2) It would be interesting to know if the "Insufficient memory" thing
> shows up again, and if so, how often

It appears to show up every 3-4 hours or so--I would guess this
corresponds with times of heavy network traffic. When it does show up, it
repeats as much as 500 times (according to syslog).

Brian

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