Bugtraq: Re: Flaw in 3c59x.c or in Kernel?

[pug () PUG NET (Pug Bainter)]

David Malone (dwmalone () MATHS TCD IE) said something that sounded like:
> > eth1: Too much work in interrupt, status e481. Temporarily disabling
> > functions(7b7e).
> We saw this with some Linux machines in college that were connected
> to busy 100Mb/s ethernet. Bill Paul is right when he says ifconfiging
> down and then up fixes the hang. To work around the problem we changed
> max_interrupt_work from 20 to 200 and I don't think they've seen any
> hangs since. (You can find this in the .c file for the driver).
> From the source code, max_interrupt_work is a insmod-settable variable
since 3/8/97. I've never tried it admittedly, but will be shortly.

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