Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:04:01 +0000 | From | Richard Dynes <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.11 and tulip.c issues |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Do we need to download Donald's 0.91 and test it or what? > > Try it - the more data we get (especially Don gets) the better
I've cross posted this to the tulip list.
I've been running v0.91 for months since all of the hardware I get now (Znyx 4 port ethercards, Ziatech CPUs) has tulip 21143s on them, and I've occasionally experienced some really bad network jams when I boot with 89H on a 21143. Fortunately, I've only got genuine Intel/DEC 21143s, so I haven't had to deal with any clone issues.
Except for some autonegotiate things with some of the boards I have (Znyx), I haven't had any problems that I attribute to v0.91. But then I mostly telnet in, and occassionally ftp new kernels over. Most of the ethernet traffic doesn't go up the network stack, see below. I haven't set up a test plan for testing the driver exhaustively for large files, full utilization at 100mbit, and full duplex, etc. Actually, 100% utilization at 100mbit may be a bit much, to think about it.
Disclaimer: I'm hacking the tulip driver itself (see http://www.tidalwave.net/~rdynes for a patch and driver tarball), thus I associate any trouble with tulip with my own hacks.
-Richard
-- Richard Dynes rdynes@varcom.com
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