chris> We've recently got a tulip based card, and we see network hangs (the kind
chris> fixable by taking the interface down then up). I have two questions.
I saw a similar problem with a tulip card in my proxy server, which is
under a LOT of network load (2 million requests/day) - the card would
simply stop working, but if I ifconffiged it down/up again it was fine..
The problem turned out to be hardware rather than software - it was
plugged into a rather cheap non-switching hub, which I replaced with a
16x10Mb+2x10/100Mb switch (by Netgear, and the tulip is also a Netgear)
and I haven't seen the problem since (plus the card now runs at 100Mb full
duplex, VERY fast :))
Hope this helps you solve your problem.
- Matt Kemner
System Administrator
Networx Internet
Western Australia
++61 8 9345 3377
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