[vortex] 3c905B and ping delays

Piotr Kasprzyk kwadrat@rose.iinf.polsl.gliwice.pl
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:29:10 +0100


Good Morning !!!

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:49:21PM +0100, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Piotr Kasprzyk wrote:
> 
> > I searched through the archives but found no answer.
> > I have linux-2.0.38 with driver 0.99H.
> 
> About 2 years ago I used the same combination (well, I think it was
> 2.0.36, but the changes afterwards were very small) with 3C905B
> cards. Under heavy network load, I would sometimes get stalled TCP
> connections. Upgrading to the latest driver (0.99L) at that time, solved
> most of the problems. I think that Don's drivers are backwards compatible,
> so that you can use a recent one (0.99Qk) for your kernel.
> http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html

 I tested the server through weekend with latest driver 0.99Qk and
 it works OK. Thank you!

   Piotr Kasprzyk