3c905b hanging

[Aaron Malone]

I've got a 3c905b (3c59x driver) in my mail server, and it's been
'hanging' at peak times (and 4am yesterday morning, which shouldn't be
peak, but perhaps an "unexpected event" happened. :)).  When this
occurs, it ignores all network requests, from both the inside and
out.  Doing an "ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0" has worked to bring the
interface back up each time.  ifconfig shows a high number of overruns
after this happens.

Looking over the vortex-bug archives, I've seen someone with a
situation that seemed similar, who said he fixed it by cranking
max_interrupt_work up to 200.  I've done this (as an insmod option),
and the problem hasn't recurred yet, but only a day has passed.  Is
this the correct solution for my problem, or do you think it might be
something else entirely? :)

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Aaron Malone (aaron@semo.net)
System Administrator
Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc.
http://www.semo.net
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