I'm having similar problems with my 3c590 pci ethernet card.

the card just freezes when someone try to request a large number of packets
from my machine. 

anyone here knows the solution to this problem???

/andrew

On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Zdenek Salvet wrote:
> 
> > I have had success with 3c590 driver under light load,
> > but "ping -f -s 1400 ..." freezes the interface very quickly.
> 
> I've just put a 3c905 in my system, and I have the same problem.
> It freezes after about a hundred packets of `ping -f -s 1400' to
> it from another machine. When I try to ping out from the machine,
> I get:
> 
>     ping: sendto: no buffer space available
> 
> A netstat -m shows that I've got a hundred or so buffers in use,
> and 0 requests for memory denied or delayed, 0 calls to the protocol
> drain routines.  If I ifconfig the interface down and then up again,
> the memory is freed and the card works normally again.
> 
> What is likely to be causing this sort of behaviour? What sort of
> debugging do I want to turn on to see where it's breaking? I have
> my copy of TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 2 handy. :-)
> 
> cjs
> 
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