Messages in this thread | | | From | Jon Rifkin <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Network interface fails after RX packet count cycles back to zero | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:21:35 -0500 |
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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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