Subject: 1.0pl6 3c509 Network Hangs
To: Rens Troost <rens@imsi.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <danielce@ee.mu.OZ.AU>
List: current-users
Date: 02/02/1995 09:30:20
Rens Troost writes:
>
> I'm running 1.0 with the patches on a 486/66 Adaptec AHA-1520 with
> a 3c509 ethernet card. AFter working OK for a while, the ethernet
> will inevitably hang, crippling the machine. It seems to happen
> faster with NFS. In addition, transmit behavior seems pretty
> bursty.
>
> I seem to recall something about dropping in the ethernet driver
> from the current distribution....has anyone had this problem?
> Know a fix?
I had this problem installing a new machine, a workaround that seemed
effective was to limit the NFS read/write sizes to 1024.
--
Dan.