3c59x: recurring transmit errors (solved?)

Greg Whalin gwhalin@numerix.com
Tue Sep 8 11:11:27 1998


Nope, I have tried running dev kernels (I am running 2.1.120 on at least
three systems), and experience the same timeouts.

Greg

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Greg Whalin
gwhalin@numerix.com

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Yeak Nai Siew wrote:

> I also noticed the ethernet timeout occured during the name resolving time.
> During that time I usually have the log analysis (analog) software running
> to do the analysis. Lots of IP to name conversion is happening.
> 
> I remember last time I did try to upgrade the kernel to 2.1.x. The
> networking performance is noticable improved. I saw this when I run
> netatalk to do the AppleTalk routing. I think the networking code in 2.1.x
> kernel must have changed a lot. Too bad I didn't try to run the machine for
> long using 2.1.x kernel. So I don't know if ethernet timeout problem still
> exist there. Does this explain upgrading kernel to 2.1.x can solve the
> problem?
> 
> 
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