Re: Ethernet transmit failures breaking server

[Wayne Pascoe]

I can't help with the problem, as this is apparantly a problem with the
Intel Ether Express driver, but i can give you a link to an alternative
driver. This was sent to me in response to me asking the question you just
have :-)

The link is ftp://ftp.nc.orc.ru/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/ and the
author is Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich <[e-mail]>

As for being able to shut the machine down cleanly, we have another box
attached to the one that is wobbling and they are connected via a serial
cable. We are using a serial console to log in when it wobbles and do a
clean shutdown... Not an optimal solution, but better than watching your
mounted data die.

Another thing, we are only noticing this under heavy load.

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On 4 Jan 2000, Nick Burrett wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have a couple of Linux servers here with identical hardware. Both
> are running kernel 2.2.12 with an SMP kernel, dual processor motherboard
> with one connected processor and an Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B network
> card.
> 
> After many days of uptime (usually 20, but most recently 93) the kernel
> repeats the follow error every 5 seconds.
> 
> eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0090 at 287931865/287931880 command 000c0000.
> eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter...
> 
> The error has been seen on kernels 2.2.10, 2.2.11 and 2.2.12. Does anybody
> have any insight into this ?
> 
> Unfortunately the error has the additional side effect of preventing the
> user from shutting down the computer cleanly from the console. Magic SysRq
> is usuable but it isn't possible to do an emergency sync or Remount R/O.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Nick Burrett.
> 
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