Re: 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after random time

Jean-Baptiste Vignaud wrote:

Mmm, bad news, after 4 hours of intensive network stressing, one of the 2
3com card failed with the latest fedora kernel.

Aug  6 22:31:09 loki kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed out
Aug  6 22:31:09 loki kernel: eth2: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status
e601. Aug  6 22:31:09 loki kernel:   diagnostics: net 0ccc media 8880 dma
0000003a fifo 8000 Aug  6 22:31:09 loki kernel: eth2: Interrupt posted but
not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? Aug  6 22:31:09 loki
kernel:   Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 26085000(8) current 26085000(8) Aug 
6 22:31:09 loki kernel:   Transmit list 00000000 vs. ffff81007c807700.

Stressing eth2 by copying large files on a samba on share and eth0 by
downloading big files on the internet.

Next time you want to stress your network you may want to try this:

  # ping 10.1 -s8 -f -l9

or

  # ping 10.1 -s8 -A > /dev/null

BTW, I mentioned this before, there maybe a BIOS irq config mismatch before 
booting the kernel.


Thanks!

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Al