Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> 
> I am using a RTK 8139 at 10MB and the porblem is not the performance
> itself. It is that the kernel gives DMA probelms and disconnects the
> card for some time, making network operation intermittent. It usually
> happens when network loard is high )even if not directed to the
> computer, just network load...). It is tedious.

it jsut happened and I see this in dmesg:
rtk0: watchdog timeout
rtk0: watchdog timeout
rtk0: watchdog timeout

Cheers,

R