From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:22:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:22:12 -0500 Received: from ns.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.10]:37385 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:22:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:21:55 +0100 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: linux-kernel Subject: [BUG] Problem with TX/RX-network-card-counters Message-Id: <20020121112155.56f71375.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello all, today I ran into a problem with the TX/RX-counters of my tulip network cards. I run the box under 2.2.19 with tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov, but this may be of common interest. Plain and simple my TX counter reached 2G and the network connection just broke down. I don't exactly know why, but this is obviously a bug. There are two solutions possible for this: 1) wrap around the counter and restart them at zero. 2) enlarge the counter from (possibly) int or 32-bit to at least 64 bit. I favor 2) very much, because wrap-around has a real m*d*s flair ;-) Is this network-card specific? Is this fixed in 2.4 or later? Regards, Stephan