Re: Kernel oops, 2 3C59x ethernet cards

David Morton (mortonda@osprey.net)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:27:39 -0600


I thought that helped; in fact it lasted longer, but I did finally get
another oops.

This only happens when I try to transfer a lot of traffic from one
network to the other.
Under light load, I never seem to have a problem.

I guess I can't rule out the possibility of hardware problems...

Hans-Joachim Baader wrote:
>
> In article <3861051C.A9674127@osprey.net> you write:
> >I have a reproduceable problem on a box that is serving as a
> >firewall/router.
>
> Either try driver 0.99L, or the new 3com driver from support.3com.com.
> The latter is recommended for these cards. It runs very well even with
> SMP so I assume it is OK with 2 NICs too ;-)
>
> hjb
> --
> You feel strangely lucky...
> http://www.pro-linux.de/ - Germany's largest volunteer Linux support site

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