Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:47:51 +0300 | From | Andrey Savochkin <> | Subject | Re: Intel EEPro 100 with kernel drivers |
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:55:23AM +0100, Thomas LangЕs wrote: > Andrey Savochkin: > > Well, with eepro100 the start may be the following: > > 1. When the card stalls, start ping from that host. > > This way you ensure that you have something in transmit ring. > > If it's transmitting that stalls, you'll get a message from netdev watchdog. > > From the server, or the client? I've already tried pinging from the server
>From the computer where the network card hangs and where you see messages in dmesg. The network card hangs on only one side, right?
> when I get the error-message in dmesg, but it's unresponsive to anything. > And, I mean anything, network-wise. There seems to be a timeout somewhere, > because after some time, everything resumes back to normal again.
If the operations stall just for few seconds, it's perfectly ok. If after a few second stop the card itself resumes to operate normally, but NFS operations are blocked for much longer time, it's NFS problem. If the card itself stops operation for a long time, it needs to be fixed.
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