eepro100 Transmit timeouts - time to cut my losses?

[David Ford]

Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:

> David Ford <david@kalifornia.com> writes:
> > if anyone has suggestions, i'd love to hear it.  also, some people have
> > said v1.05 doesn't have this problem.  can some kind soul point out a url
> > for it to me?  i'd muchly appreciate it.
>
> You guys ARE disabling the hardware multicast filter with
>
> options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3
>
> (in /etc/conf.modules, assuming you're using modules), right? I have
> half a dozen eepro100's in various PCs running Linux (all single
> processor, though), all rock solid with this option, all crash within
> a few minutes of uptime without it.

no, i never use modules on servers.

i have eepro100 cards elsewhere and all run fine without problems if i do
-not- compile ipv6 support in the kernel.  this was the solution from a couple
months back from the alan cox and assoc.

-d