Re: System locks up with RealTek 8139 and kernel 2.2.20
Well, we've had RTL8139 cards in servers up for about 60-70 days with no
problem. Don't know about the outgoing/ping issue as the servers are
always in use, but they appear reliable.
Sincerely,
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gonzalez, Tularosa Communications" <ekool@ns1.netmdc.com>
To: "Olivier Poitrey" <olivier@pas-tres.net>
Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>; "Antonio Rodriguez"
<antonio@mac.ps100.net>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: System locks up with RealTek 8139 and kernel 2.2.20
> What causes the lockups? How often? I have an RTL 8139 in use.
>
> However, I have noticed something strange. I must keep "outbound"
traffic
> flowing or they forget their ARP table for some strange reason. I keep
an
> outbound ping running... If i dont, and there is no network activity on
> the box, it is unresponsive via network, but hopping on the console and
> starting another ping session brings it back to life. (I also have to do
> this on my machines with older RTL cards, using the ne2k-pci driver)
>
> So far, uptime of box and kernel ver with RTL cards is:
>
> Linux xxxxx 2.2.19 #22 Wed Jun 20 18:12:16 PDT 2001 i686 unknown
> 9:42am up 13 days, 6:57, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
>
>
>
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>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Olivier Poitrey wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <antonio@mac.ps100.net>
> > To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 3:54 PM
> > Subject: System locks up with RealTek 8139 and kernel 2.2.20
> >
> > > 2. move to 2.4 and hope this solves the problem. I have already gone
> > > from 2.2.17 to 2.2.20 to try to fix it, but maybe the move to 2.4
will
> > > be more significant.
> >
> > You'll have the same problem with 2.4.x, I have tested it for you :/
>
>
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