> From: Wang Hui <hwang@xxxxxxx>
> We are the IPv6 Tech Research Team,USTC. Our recent study tells
> a big bug in linux kernel 2.2.13.
>
> We have two boxes installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 with the kernel 2.2.13.
> Each of the boxes has a 100M D-Link NIC, witch is supported by the
> via-rhine driver carried in the kernel. Each box are implemented the
> IPv6 stack of course. The two boxes are connected via a 100M optics
> fibre.
>
> After the two boxes boot up, everything goes well. The connection is
> very good. But after some time, say one or two days, the connection will
> lost. But if we use the `tcpdump' to see what's going on at this time,
> the connection will rebuild! We guess that the via-rhine driver has some
> wrong codes witch will flood the buffer of the 100M NIC. Now we are
> looking into the source code, and we believe the reason will be found
> soon. I wonder if there is any patch for this bug already. It will save
> us a lot of work. :))
Kernel 2.2.14 perhaps?
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