rtl8139 driver "looses" network

[William T Wilson]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, David H. Goodlette wrote:

> rtl8139 chip.  The chip is in promiscuous mode (it's a sniffer), and
> after a random time frame, the chip stops working. Pings to the
> machine do not work, nor do pings out of the box.  If we ifconfig eth0
> down, then this somehow resets the driver and it starts to work again.

Congratulations, you have the Amazing Disappearing rtl8139.

> an earlier version of the driver on an earlier kernel.  The driver is
> under heavy data load, so I'm wondering if it might me load related.  

Not sure.  It doesn't happen when the card is under no load (with a normal
workstation attached to the rtl8139, I get a lockup about every two
days... with the person that uses that workstation away, it's been going
for a little over a week without falling over).  So it's definitely usage
dependent, but it seems to scrub whether the load is light or heavy.

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