RE: 2.2.13 networking: packets delayed by many seconds

David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:50:36 -0800

I had a similar problem with the tulip build included in 2.2.14pre9. I
couldn't get the included 'old-tulip' to work (it wouldn't detect my card
for some reason). So I grabbed v0.91 from the web, and it worked perfectly.
My card is based on the 21140 rev 34.

DS

> > 21143 ethernet interface & the tulip 0.91g driver. Packets are delayed
> > for many seconds, up to 15, and are then all sent at once.
>
> Try the 0.89H one again. (its old tulip in config.*).
>
> > The system got into this state after about 6 hours of heavy network
> > traffic (NFS and SMB), and could not be recovered until a reboot.
> > This affected all network traffic; I'm using ping as an example
>
> It looks like a stuck IRQ
>
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