[tulip-bug] Linksys 100TX card hangs

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, QuoteMstr wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:31:13PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, QuoteMstr wrote:
> > 
> > > My ethernet card, a Linksys 100TX (Using PLIP-II, Lite-On LC82C115)
> > > hangs under load, and often corrupts data when receiving at speeds
> > > greater than 100kB/sec or so. I would use a different card, but my
> > 
> > Corrupts data?  In what way?
> > This should never happen, even if the transmitter occasionally stop.
>
> I don't know. At speeds over X, CRC checks fail, bz2s do not bunzip2,
> gzips do not gunzip, rpms do not install, etc, all with CRC or
> validation errors of some sort.

Even if the chip let packets with a bad CRC through, the TCP/IP checksum
would catch the problem.

You have a hardware problem.  Perhaps a PCI or memory bus error.


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