BMAC works wrong?

I'm now using PowerMac G3 DT/233 with linux-2.2.17pre18.

Since 2.2.15pre15 or so, hosts over eth0 (BMAC) are suddenly
unreachable several times per day. When eth0 is unreachable, the load
average of this machine is high.

If I'm lucky, I can type the following commands.
$ su -
# ifdown eth0
# ifup eth0
And then, eth0 is recovered. But sometimes I cannot type any commands.

eth1 (via-rhine) has no problem. Users over eth1 tell me eth0 is
unreachable when he/she accesses the sites with low network response.

Is BMAC driver something broken?


MATSUURA Takanori @ Division of Protein Chemistry,
                     Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan
E-Mail: t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp
Web Page: http://www.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/chemistry/matsuura/

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