Re: Update on e1000 troubles (over-heating!)

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Ben Greear wrote:

> I can reproduce my crash using mtu sized pkts running only 50Mbps
> send + receive on 2 nics.  It took over-night to do it though.  Running
> as hard as I can with MTU packets will crash it as well, and much
>quicker.
>

So is there a correlation with packet count then?


> Interestingly enough, the tg3 NIC (netgear 302t), registered 57 deg C between
> the fins of it's heat sink in the 32-bit slots.  Makes me wonder if my PCI bus
> is running too hot :P

Does the problem happen with the tg3?

cheers,
jamal