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From: Hasch@t-online.de (Juergen Hasch)
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        Thomas =?iso-8859-1?q?Lang=E5s?= <tlan@stud.ntnu.no>,
        Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
Subject: Re: Intel EEPro 100 with kernel drivers
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:15:33 +0100
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Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2001 13:00 schrieb Thomas Lang?s:
> Andrey Savochkin:
> > It should be Rx_TCO_Packets, not Tx.
> > The problem described in Intel's advisory is related to incorrect
> > processing of receiving packets.
>
> But if it's this bug that's triggered with NFS-traffic, then the counter
> should be increasing with every timeout, right? Not just one time. I get a
> lot of timeout and the counter is still just 1.
>
> I'm going out to buy me another NIC and try tests a bit systematically, and
> report back with the results afterwards.

The Rx_TCO_Packets counter should increase at each timeout you get,
so this looks like another problem.

I have got two servers with two different EEPRO100 network cards. 
One works better with the eepro100 driver, the other one seems to favour the 
e100 driver :-)
Both cards are working flawlessly now, however I was close to buying new NICs 
because of the problems like command timeouts, no resources messages and NFS 
timeouts.

...Juergen
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