Re: anyone with bmac network problem?

Takashi Oe wrote:

I'm looking for testers on a possible workaround for bmac network problem.
As some of you might know, bmac tx dies abruptly when network environment
is very busy and never recovers.  A patch enclosed might alleviate the
situation, and I want to know if it works for anybody else.

This problem is hard to reproduce in that it takes time and you must have
busy traffic.  I can say I have not been able to reproduce the problem
when the patch is applied, whereas I could eventually reproduce the bmac
hang without the patch, but YMMV.

IT WORKS!!! My test is to run the security scanner nessus against several hosts
in parallel, and it *always* crashed the network. Now it works like a dream,
absolutely stable. Good work, indeed!!! When does it go into the standard
kernel?

Thanks, Albrecht.

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