On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:53:26AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > mtsouk@freemail.gr wrote: > > > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, mtsouk@freemail.gr wrote: > > > > > 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. > > # 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) > > Sorry, coming late to this thread. I just answered this question in > another too. Under a heavy load the eepro100 driver tends to drop out > on the network. The eepro100 tends to complain about 'out of network > resources' frequently under load and sometimes drops out. To fix > reset the networking I put a cron '/etc/init.d/networking restart' > script in place to work around the problem. Restarting would reset > the network for us after a dropout. > > We changed to the Intel e100 driver direct from the Intel site and the > problem went away. That driver (well, the source code for it) is available in non-free as "e100-source". -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.
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