On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 07:04 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Brad wrote:

quoted

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Justin Piszcz [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Brad wrote:

quoted

Hi.  I'd like to revisit a problem I put to the mailing list on the

<snip>

quoted

I've had another problem with the Realtek network driver ... under network
load it seemed to miss interrupts and/or pass them to the IDE driver, which
would print out errors about unexpected/unknown interrupts.  I had to take
IDE out of my kernel.

Correct, buy an Intel 1GBPS PCI-e card, I do for all of my main machines
that do not have Intel NICs, solves the problem.  They are $30-40 and then
all of your network issues will be solved.

quoted

I have a gigabyte X48 board with two of those realtek NICs, and apart
from some driver troubles which the r8169 maintainer fixed for me, i've
had no issues with it.

I suggest contacting the maintainer if you really believe its the NIC
and/or driver

<snip>

Justin.