It is a problem with the Tulip chipset. It will do it under
heavy load, like pushing MB between two Linux servers through
a switch.
Bao
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I've got a Pentium/120 with a PCI-bus Linksys LNE100TX card, and heavy
> network loading in the inbound direction - whether FTP put/get or NFS -
> makes the card die. The whole machine has stopped working once, and one
> time eth0 disappeared completely (didn't show up in ifconfig but showed up
> in the admin tools) after a reboot - it reappeared after I left the machine
> off for a few minutes. Most recently, it would periodically stop working
> during a big FTP put coming from another machine, but the put would resume
> after I cycled eth0 down and up again (although it screwed up the file in
> the process).
>
> FWIW, this is Caldera eServer 2.3 with kernel 2.2.14, and the card is
> running in 10mbps mode.
>
> Does this sound like a broken card, or is there a chronic problem with the
> LNE100TX?
>
>
> - Jeff
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