Re: ethernet cards

[J Corey <whoop@mtco.com>]

mike packard wrote:
> 
> I think someone might have brought this up at the last meeting, but I'm
> curious so I'll ask again.
> 
> My ethernet card (it's a Linksys Tulip-based) seems to be working fine
> for awhile, then all of a sudden the card gets incredibly slow for no
> reason.  One minute I'll ping another machine in 0.5ms, then it's 2000ms.
> Ouch.  I might just be imagining this part, but it seems like it happens
> whenever I try to transfer a screenful or more of text.  Taking the device
> down with ifconfig and then bringing it right back up seems to fix the
> problem.  Anyone have any ideas?

You might try the linux-net mail list on vger.rutgers.edu.  On a couple
occasions when I had trouble with token ring and tulip cards, I put a
little message up there, and pretty quickly the author of the kernel
drivers were emailing and got to a solution quickly.

That is, if no one here knows. :)

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