[tulip] tulip 0.92, carrier errors.

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, John Brosnan wrote:

> using Donald Becker's tulip.c:v0.92 on Linux 2.2.16, 
> if I bring down an interface using ifconfig and
> bring it back up again, when I transmit data on the 
> interface I see lots of carrier errors and very bad 
> performance.  Is this a known problem ? 
> Any workarounds/fixes ?

What chip type?
(If it's a chip with various transceiver design options, what is the
detection message?)

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