Re: PROBLEM: Network interface fails after RX packet count cycles back to zero

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 13:09:55 EST


> number of RX packets as steadily increasing. Once this number
> reaches 2147483647 (2^31-1) after about 6 days it stops
> increasing and remains constant. After another 6 days, presumably
> when 2^32 packets have passed by, the interface stops reading packets.
> The only solution I've found it to reboot the system.

What kind of network card ?

Alan

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