Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:17:07 -0400 (EDT) | From | Brian Leeper <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Losing network connectivity with 2.2.10 |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Chris Evans wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Brian Leeper wrote: > > > Tulip card back into the machine, and upgraded the kernel to 2.2.10. I > > thought this fixed the problem until the machine lost network > > connectivity again. > If the driver supports your card, use the de4x5.o ethernet driver. It > supports a lot of boards that the tulip driver supports. We find the > driver more stable than the tulip driver (doesn't randomly drop the > network like the tulip driver does).
Well, the plot thickens. I tried the de4x5 driver on one of the machines that was giving me trouble. It works with the card I'm using, but I got this in the syslog (machine has been up for 8 hours, so far these are the only occurrance):
Jun 17 15:42:51 linux270 kernel: eth0: Insufficient memory; nuking packet. Jun 17 15:43:01 linux270 last message repeated 937 times Jun 17 15:43:01 linux270 kernel: eth0: Insufficient memory; nuking packet. Jun 17 15:43:32 linux270 last message repeated 1496 times Jun 17 15:43:39 linux270 last message repeated 329 times
I just ran ifconfig on the same machine, here is the output showing the dropped packets:
RX packets:9404330 errors:0 dropped:3055 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12103834 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:3211336 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb800
I'm not quite sure what it means by "insufficient memory"--the machine has 128MB of RAM and didn't show any signs of running out. Is this a packet buffer it's reffering to?
Brian
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