[eepro100] NIC and "broken pipe"

[Ola Samuelson]

I have been hunting the source of
"broken pipe"-messages in my java logs for a year now.

These messages appear when I "leave" the local machine for
database access.

A broken pipe - is that not when a client disconnects prematurely or
something like that?

Ideas?

The requests are passing a firewall(IPCHAINS) with 3 nics and all
machines involved
have eepro100 cards with latest driver from scyld.com compiled into
kernel. Also, "freepages" are set higher on all machines.

Kernels vary though, 2.2.13, 2.2.16 or 2.2.18.

All suggestions welcome.

TIA
//OLAS