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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@pyxtechnologies.com>
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Subject: Re: Update on e1000 troubles (over-heating!)
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On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:

>
> I have a pair of Compaq e1000's which have never overheated, and I use
> them for heavy duty iSCSI testing and designing of drivers.  These are
> massive 66/64 cards but still nothing like what you are reporting.
>
> I will look some more at the issue soon.
>

It seems like the prerequisite to reproduce it is you beat the NIC heavily
with a lot of packets/sec and then run it at that sustained rate for at
least 30 minutes. isci would tend to use MTU sized packets which will
not be that effective.

cheers,
jamal




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