Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:58:30 +0100 | From | Fredrik Reuterswärd <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.13 & high network load |
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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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