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SubjectRe: 2.2.13 & high network load
At 16:35 1999-12-14 +0000, you wrote:
>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 have seen that same effect with tulip, eepro100 and epic100 cards.
>All of those cards use drivers by Donald Becker with a (since a while)
>known design problem. You are using:
>
> >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
>
>I bet this is the same bug. Patches are floating around for the
>tulip driver, there is an alternative eepro100 driver, but I don't
>know of fixes for the epic100 or 3c59x.

I had the same problem but since a month ago I am using 3Coms driver
( http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux.htm ) and have'nt had
any problems.

Fredrik


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