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After checking out Donald Becker's latest drivers... if you have spare
cash... and if the need is there....
A very quick fix (until you figure out the problem, or if the server
really needs to be highly available): Have you got a spare PCI slot? ;-)))
Add another NIC, different brand (therefore different driver). If the
EEpro100 fails again... at least you don't have to go in to physically get
the box back on the net. Config the redundant card remotely and bingo
you're back online. You could even automate the process with a script to
check if the EEpro is working.
Ben
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Julian Anastasov wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Jerry Glomph Black wrote:
>
> > I've seen several 2.2.12/2.2.13 machines lose their network connections
> > after
> > a long period of fine operation. Tonight our main LVS box fell off the
> > net. I
> > visited the box, it had not crashed at all. However, it was not
> > communicating
> > via its (Intel eepro100) ethernet port.
> >
> > The evil evidence:
> >
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:27:50:A8:DE
> > inet addr:172.16.0.20 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:15 errors:288850 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:2147483647 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> > Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000
> >
> >
> > Check out the TX packets number! That's 2^31-1.
> >
> > Prior to the rollover, In-and-out packets were roughly equal.
> >
> > I think this has happened to non-LVS systems as well, on 2.2 kernels.
> >
> > ifconfigging eth0 down-and-up did nothing. A reboot (ugh) was necessary.
> >
> > This is absolutely dreadful. Is this 'feature' a property of the eepro100
> > driver, or something in the kernel itself? Either way, it's a killer.
> >
>
> What Kernel/LVS/eepro100 version you are using? You can try
> Donald Becker's latest drivers from:
>
> ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/
>
> They support all kernel versions, not only 2.3.
>
> Regards,
>
> Julian Anastasov
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