[tulip-bug] transmit timed out + too much work during an interrupt problems

[Greg Wooledge]

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Gehrken Klaus (Klaus.Gehrken@pdb.sbs.de) wrote:

> we suffer from sporadic tulip driver "hangups".=20
> Under not yet discovered circumstances, some of our firewallinterfaces st=
op
> working,
> no packets are transmittet or recieved any more until "ifdown ethx ; ifup
> ethx".

> Redhat 7.2 diestribution with Linux 2.2.20 SMP kernel (kernel.org origina=
l sources)

I saw similar behavior with the 2.2.20 kernel running as an NFS
client.  It seems to have gone away with the NFS client changes in
Linux kernel 2.2.21.  (Your mileage may vary.)

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