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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:03:29 +0100 (CET)
From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
To: Klaus Zerwes <kzerwes@web.de>
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Subject: Re: bug ?
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Klaus Zerwes wrote:

> My PC hangs sporadicaly (every 2 weeks) after heavy Network traffic.
> I tried to work around the problem by changing the NIC (dmfe >
> realtek, using new driver 8139too), but it din't help.

The RealTek 8139 is a bad choice, I had the same effect on one of our
servers until I replaced it with a NE2000. I think this is related to
busmaster DMA.

   Simon

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