Re: Problems with Tulip under heavy load

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 19:10:40 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Oren Laadan wrote:

> Hi
>
> We're getting frequent network lockups with kernels 2.1.120 -- 2.1.126.
> All of a sudden the machine doesn't respond to the network AT ALL, as
> if the cable was cut. In fact the machine is totally alive and everything
> works inside - scheduling, and all.

Try the de4x5 driver, it seems more reliable than the tulip driver, i.e.
doesn't drop the network twice a day.

I suspect a fairly generic driver problem, possibly in the duff packet
discard code - our network sees a lot of broken packets.

Chris

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