3c905b hanging

[Aaron Malone]

Well, it just happened again (luckily I have a perl "crutch" to
restart the interface automatically), so apparently the
max_interrupt_work isn't the solution.  Anyone have an idea?

-Aaron M.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:50:39AM -0600, Aaron Malone wrote:
> 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? :)
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Malone (aaron@semo.net)
> System Administrator
> Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc.
> http://www.semo.net
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Aaron Malone (aaron@semo.net)
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Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc.
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