Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:05:02AM -0500, Colin Ngam wrote:
>
> > I have seen this pretty often on the SNIA64 machine too and I normally see
> > it on the way to multi-user ..
> >
> > Are you saying that in 99% of the time when we get RX overflow, we can
> > reinit the driver and card? I was led to believe that we NEVER been able to
> > recover
> > from an RX overflow situation.
> >
> > The bottom line is that for SNIA64, this may be our only ethernet connection
> > and
> > we need to stabilize it. Are you actively engaged in this problem?
>
> Attached is my current version of the IOC3 driver. It has just survived
> some hours of extremly heavy network traffic. Yet there are some loose
> ends, I've seen crashes which went away without me actually having fixed
> them ... Please try this one on SN0/SN1 also and tell me your experiences.
>
> Ralf
>
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> ioc3-eth.cName: ioc3-eth.c
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Thanks Ralf.
I still do not have the machine here connected to the network in Eagan ..
I am going to seek Chad's help to merge the files.
As far as I know the changes for Little Endian has been isolated in the
.h files .. we have some hack in there for MAC address but rather isolated
a merge should not be that bad.
Colin
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