On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> We've had horrible luck with the realtek 8139 with a few of our
> 10MBps hubs.
I've seen the same problem here. My 8139 card is currently
going to the switch at 100Mbit/s, which runs stable with
Linux 2.4.0, even on my BP6 ;)
However, because of a lack of network sockets a while ago,
I put a 10Mbit hub in between so I could "split" the network
socket for my test machine too.
While communication between my machines on the hub continued to
work, it managed to block the port on the switch so hard that
we had to powercycle it. This happened with 2 different kinds
of hubs we tried and doesn't happen when we use the same hubs
with other network cards.
Conclusion: 8139 can cause hours and hours more "fun" then what
you've bargained for...
(OTOH, I'm still using the card on my SMP box with no problems
at all ... but at least I've experienced how fragile the setup
of this thing is)
regards,
Rik
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