[realtek-bug] Transmission hangup after long periods without link

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Scott Henwood wrote:

> I'm using V1.20a of rtl8139.c on a Celeron 850-based motherboard with 
..
> In our configuration, traffic goes through the box in one direction 
> only. We discovered that if we unplug the Ethernet cable on the outgoing 
> interface and leave it unplugged for some period of time (12 hours 
> usually does it) and then re-attach the cable, no data comes out. 

Errrkkkk, that's pretty obscure!

> rtl8139-diag shows that the link has been detected. Tcpdump shows that 
> braodcast/multicast traffic on the outgoing interface's cable is being 
> received but that there are no outbound packets.

What does rtl8139-diag -am report when no packets are being transmitted?

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