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SubjectRe: Lockups with Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100
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In message <19990417005537.14293.qmail@dpd130.rh.psu.edu>, abob@dpd130.rh.psu.e
du writes:
+-----
| > Situation:
| > The machine is crusing along with a load average of 0.01 and all of a
| > sudden one of the ethernet boards will lock up.
|
| I get this too sometimes (I can see the eepro100 card is sending, but not
| receiving on another machine).
> ( . . . )
| What you might want to try is compile the kernel without Multicasting, it
| seems to have helped with my computer. (this seems to be a common problem with
| the eepro100's)
+--->8

The netatalk folks run into this fairly often; the workaround they came up
with is:

options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3

in /etc/conf.modules. Seems to work here (I've had the lockup as well, but
not since adding this option).

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