Re: Locked up 2.4.10-pre11 on Tyan 815t motherboard.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

I can re-produce this with the e100 driver as well
(using 64byte packets, too).  I'll try an older kernel
tomorrow to see if that fixes anything...

Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> I was running a network stress test (sending lots of 64 byte packets
> on the DLINK 4-port NIC and two EEPRO-100 NICs.  This ran for 5 minutes,
> and all was good (about 12Mbps of 64byte packets)..
> 
> Then, I re-started the test with 128 byte packets.  As soon as traffic
> started, the whole machine locked up.  Couldn't even ping it from another
> machine.  I had to hold down the power-switch for about 5 seconds before
> it reset (ie it wasn't even listening to the power-down??)
> 
> I'm using the eepro100 driver that is included in the kernel, btw.  This
> used to have a lockup problem, but I thought it was fixed...
> 
> I'm going to see if I can re-produce this.  If so, can someone suggest
> a way to get more/better debugging information??
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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