> The packet-counter is not really involved in any way. In other words,
> when the counter reaches max the network doesn't stop because of it.
> In fact, the packet counter used to wrap past zero.
On one or two it is.
> What you probably have is a driver that stops working after some
> period to time. This has been known to happen with some boards and,
> in fact, there are some software work-arounds in some of the drivers
> to restart the boards.
What I'd guess is he has a board that keeps the counters in hardware - such
as the 3c59x/3c90x card. Those boards give you a counter overflow interrupt
at which point you have to poke about a little read the counts and kick
the card.
I imagine that isnt the most tested code path
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