Re: "resetting" a network card

[mtsouk@freemail.gr]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Josh McKinney wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:06:31 -0500
> From: Josh McKinney <forming@charter.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: "resetting" a network card
> Resent-Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2003 20:25:19 -0600 (CST)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> 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

Thank you very much for answering.

The following way seams to work:

# ifdown eth0; rmmod eepro100; ifup eth0
(As you can see it is not a cheap network card but I have seen the same
problem to RTL network cards)

I don't know for sure yet as I have to run a 8+ hours test to make sure
but if I won't send another message about it, it will mean that it
worked.

many thanks to all of you,
Mihalis.

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