[tulip] KNE111TX arp problems

[Donald Becker]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Tom Huckstep wrote:

> Donald Becker writes:
>  > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Tom Huckstep wrote:
>  > 
>  > > I have two computers linked with a crossover cable between two
>  > > KNE111TX NICs.  henry is my main workstation, and maxwell is a old
>  > > system that I don't always have turned on.
>  > > 
>  > > After system boot everything is OK, and the network connection is
>  > > fine.  Often though, if I do an ifup eth0; ifdown eth0 on either
>  > > system the connection is broken, because one system or other cannot
>  > > find the hardware address of the other card. e.g.:
>  > 
>  > What is the detection message, including driver version number?
> 
> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0xdc00, 00:C0:F0:7A:28:A4, IRQ 11.

This driver version lost the receive filter setting when it lost link
beat.
Please try
     ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/test/tulip.c
using the instructions at
  http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
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