interface dies under network load on SMP machines

[Frank Koenen]

"The interface goes dead from time to time without leaving any log
 messages - a simple ifconfig down/up brings them back to live."

"Wonder if this might be a problem outside the tulip driver?"

I'm still trying to determine the problem with the dying network
interface... can anyone give me some direction on how I could go
about diagnosing the problem better? Is there any debug diagnostics I could
run on the interface cards?

I noticed the Tulip web site is showing version "tulip.c:v0.89H
5/23/98" as the latest version. My tulip.c is showing "tulip.c:v0.89I
7/26/98". Is there a newer version I could test? Should I try using
the 0.89H version even though it is older than the one I'm using?

In my case, doing an ifconfig up/down does not always correct the
problem.

-- 
Frank Koenen (koenfr@lidp.com) [630-960-0133 x634]   ,__o   "If you're not the 
LIDP Systems Wrangler, whipping computers into     _-\_<,    leader, the view
submission for more than 13 years.                (*)/'(*)   never changes"