[vortex-bug] Can't get RedHat 6.2 and 3C905C to perform well...

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Henningsen, Finn wrote:

> When running RedHat 6.2 on my system, I get really bad and unstable
> performance from my 3C905C NIC. I keep losing connection and ping roundtrips

What driver version are you running?
What is the detection message?

> are measured in minutes (right after a reboot, the first few ping are OK,
> but after that the roundtrip time just get worse and worse). When running
> RedHat 6.1 on exactly the same hardware, everything works fine. Does anyone
> know what's wrong?

What driver version are you running with 6.1?

Have you tried
   http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
      ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/test/3c59x.c

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