[plug] RealTek Problems

[Matthew Murray]

Try a different network card.

I have had similar problems on core systems where after around
5 minutes of operation the damn network card would timeout
or cause packet errors, these where standard RealTek Ne2000
network cards.

Upgraded to 3com 3C903 PCI cards, cost a bit more, but worth
the upgrade, they can handle 100MB throughput without dropping
any packets.

- Matthew Murray
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-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Hunt <grover at enterprise.nettrek.com.au>
To: plug at linux.org.au <plug at linux.org.au>
Date: Monday, 2 November 1998 4:38
Subject: [plug] RealTek Problems


>Nov  2 12:05:37 enterprise kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0d 0000.
>This error appears after about 3 hours running perfectly in the server...
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>Does anyone have any ideas why this could be?
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>Details: Dual PPro 200, Stallion 64 port card, running kernel 2.0.35
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>Neil
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