Re: ISSUE: DFE530-TX REV-A3-1 times out on transmit

[David Schmitt]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:46:18PM +0200, Urban Widmark wrote:
> I'm ignoring that for now (if you don't mind) and have made a patch with
> some possible improvements. Someone found a modified driver on some dlink
> server that contains (claimed) workarounds for various chip peculiarities
> (bugs).
> 
> I also added a "force software reset" that is described in the datasheet.
> Not sure what the difference is, but it can't hurt trying that if the
> normal reset fails.
> 
> Perhaps this helps, probably not.

under 'normal loads' (ie one tcp d/l at max, few other traffic) the
situation didn' get better, it hangs as often as with the original
via-rhine, at least it feels so. No hard figures here. But even
writing this mail (via ssh) here parallel to a download over the lan
(from the same server) triggers resets.

under heavy loads (ie with multiple flood pings) it resets often but I
couldn't push it over the edge anymore. I have it running now for
several minutes under multiple pingfloods and it always recovered
(from quite a amount of resets).

At least it recovers now. Thank you for your time and work!

Regards, David Schmitt
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