On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 10:44:58PM +0100, Michael Devogelaere wrote:
> I'm experiencing problems with an rtl8029-nic. The computer acts as a
> multicast-client receiving a disk-image from a server. That transfer went
> fine during the first 1.5 gb and then the machine stopped responding.
> I tried to ping it, but got no answer. On the machine i see that the
> error-packets (/sbin/ifconfig) grow very fast, but the machine cannot
> send or receive anymore. The arp-table contains 00:00:.. for all
> hw-addresses. Dmesg shows:
> eth0: bogus packet size: 65360, status=0x0 nxpg=0x0
> (repeated for 100+ times)
>
> The machine runs kernel 2.4.2 without module-support. All other participating
> computers have exactly the same hardware and software (they were all cloned
> with ghost). If i restart the program, everything goes fine for some
> minutes and then another computer crashes with exactly the same symptoms.
> When i restart the network-configuration, everything seems to work again.
Could you tell more about your hardware? Does it still happen
with 2.4.2-ac20 (which I consider most stable for now ;-))?
Full dmesg from booting and after inserting the proper networking
modules, your .config and lscpi -vvvv would be nice.
I don't experience any problems like that here.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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