[realtek] NFS problems, again

[Evgeny Plehov]

Bertram Bourdrez wrote:

> Before I start I'd like to say that I've read all I could from Google
> searches and list archives but I have found very little.
>
> In the archive of this list I found a message describing a problem that
> could cause a RealTek card to lock up when transfering large ammounts of
> data over NFS. This could be solved by ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up.
>
> I have been experiencing the same problem with the latest driver from
> ftp.scyld.com even though someone replied to the above post saying it was
> fixed in 1.11. It's a specific NFS problem, scp, ftp and the like work. Even
> reverse NFS, with the server running the 8139too driver and the client
> (which is really the network server) running 2.2.18 with rtl8139 worked.
> I'm not about to upgrade the server to 2.4.0 so I would like to continue
> serving NFS with the rtl8139 driver, but this seems to be rather hard. Any
> ideas if this is the same bug or a new one? I would guess the problem wasn't
> completely fixed in 1.11
>
> Any ideas?

better idea - replace rtl8139 with any card with stable driver ( my choice -
eepro100 ).
rtl8139 driver in EXPERIMENTAL and very buggy ( my own experince :)