From: george anzinger [off-list ref]
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:48:15 -0700
I would expect that the network code would recover from this
sort of thing, so we are looking for a preempt issue at the
moment. Still, it could just be the way things work in the
2.4.17 kernel so I thought I would ask.
Even though 2.4.17 is pretty old I still think it's a preempt
problem.