I have seen unpleasant incidents in which the Ethernet interfaces have stopped responding to anything higher-level than a ping after about 20 days of use. I saw 2 of these on 2.4test1 using an EtherExpress100, and one with 2.4test6 using the tulip driver with a PNIC card. Both were uniprocessor kernels on uniprocessor hardware (one a PIII and one a K6). In 2 of the 3 cases the machine was restored to full function just by bringing the Ethernet interface down and back up again; in the 3rd case this was not tried. Does anyone have counterexamples of machines which have been busily pushing network traffic much longer than 20 days under 2.4testx kernels? Or has anyone else seen tired Ethernet interfaces? I suspect this might be a general problem, but it is also possible the EtherExpress100 incidents and the PNIC incident might be unrelated; so some extra data points would be a great help. --------------------------------------------------------- David C. Niemi (Reston, Virginia, USA) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Know the difference between the color of the wine and the color of the glass. (Jalaluddin Rumi) --------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
