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Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel?
From: pug () PUG NET (Pug Bainter)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:27:00 -0600
David Malone (dwmalone () MATHS TCD IE) said something that sounded like:
eth1: Too much work in interrupt, status e481. Temporarily disabling functions(7b7e).We saw this with some Linux machines in college that were connected to busy 100Mb/s ethernet. Bill Paul is right when he says ifconfiging down and then up fixes the hang. To work around the problem we changed max_interrupt_work from 20 to 200 and I don't think they've seen any hangs since. (You can find this in the .c file for the driver).
From the source code, max_interrupt_work is a insmod-settable variable
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Current thread:
- Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? Sonny Parlin (Jan 04)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? Raymond Dijkxhoorn (Jan 04)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? Bill Paul (Jan 04)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? danny (Jan 04)
- userhelper/PAM exploit Derek Callaway (Jan 04)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? Raymond Dijkxhoorn (Jan 05)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? David Malone (Jan 05)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? Sonny Parlin (Jan 05)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? Jonathan Poole (Jan 05)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? Pug Bainter (Jan 05)
- Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? Sonny Parlin (Jan 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- FW: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel? William R. Lorenz (Jan 05)