Re: Bringing up secondary rtl8169-based interface causes networkhang/dma issues

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Wed Sep 09 2009 - 15:39:00 EST


Shane Arnold <clontarf_x@xxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> Well it seems I have solved it by disabling APIC and MSI/MSI-X
> interrupts. Both NIC's up and playing nicely.
>
> Now just to figure out why it's not communicating with anything...

How can we tell that the nic are playing nicely if they are not
communicating with anything (i.e. no change in the rx / tx packets
count nor in ethtool statistitcs) ?

It is a bit confusing.

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Ueimor
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