Re: "resetting" a network card
On approximately Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Mike M wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, mtsouk@freemail.gr wrote:
> > Thanks for answering.
> >
> > I am afraid that this is not what I want:
> > The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) -
> > either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly.
> > So I want to somehow "reset" in order to see if this will solve my
> > problem.
> >
> > Any other ideas please?
> <snip>
>
> I am curious about the type of card your are working with - RTL8139 by any
> chance? The problem you describe has a certain familiarity to it.
> --
I second the thought about it being a cheap network card. A decent card
shouldn't do that. But to answer your question you could do this:
#/etc/init.d/networking stop
#rmmod network_module.o
#insmod network_module.o
#/etc/init.d/networking start
That should do the trick. You just need to find out the correct name of your
NIC module.
Josh
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