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Re: "resetting" a network card



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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