Realtek 8139 problems + workaround

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Attila Karpati wrote:

> I read on the list, that others have the same problems as I have with the
> realtek cards. I write because I found a possible workaround: 
> If the driver+card goes weird, ping -s 8192 hostname helps (i tried this 
> several times), here is an example:

There are several problems with similar symptoms.

I think your solution fixes the generic, non-driver-specific, window/ACK bug
in 2.2.10-2.2.12.  (BTW, that is now acknowledged to be a protocol layer
bug, not a driver bug that suddenly manifested itself all drivers at once.
It has nothing to do with dev->tbusy handling.)

I'll have to try this the next time the ping-is-delayed bug hits.

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