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SubjectRe: PROBLEM: Network interface fails after RX packet count cycles back to zero
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I'm the one who reported the problem.  The PC in question has two different
ethernet cards. The card in promiscuous mode on the busy network is an Intel
Etherexpress Pro 10/100. The second card is an Intel 3c905. I'll try
switching the interfaces soon to see if the problem is hardware dependent.
I should know in about 2 weeks :)



On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The information provided is quite strange.
>
> I've seen the counters happily overrun on my systems.
> I'll try to make counters reach 2^31-2^32 again and see what happens.
>
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 01:28:05PM -0500, Jon Rifkin wrote:
> >
> > > > > number of RX packets as steadily increasing. Once this number
> > > > > reaches 2147483647 (2^31-1) after about 6 days it stops
> > > > > increasing and remains constant. After another 6 days, presumably
> > > > > when 2^32 packets have passed by, the interface stops reading packets.
> > > > > The only solution I've found it to reboot the system.

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