eth0: can't fill rx buffer

Hi,

I have a heavy loaded web server which crashes at least once in a month.
There is nothing in the syslog ( even it is logging via the network too),=
 the
screen almost always dark, no keyboard response , no network.
Only reset works..

The system:
Dual Xeon 2.4GHz 400MHz
e7500 Supermicro P4DPE Motherboard
5GB DDR200 ECC Registered RAM
Internal Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 LAN
RedHat 9 with 2.4.20-31.9custom #1 SMP kernel

It is a colocated server so the info we have is from the support guys.
Today it crashed again and luckily the support guy caught the system stil=
l
giving the video output. The error filling the screen was:

eth0: can't fill rx buffer

After some googleing I found that this is a common issue with heavy loade=
d
systems with eepro100 driver and got to the conclusion that for the 2.4 k=
ernels
the only workaround is to use the e100 Intel driver.
Is that true?
Isn't the eepro100 driver fixed already?
Or isn't a similar kernel parameters tunning for the 2.4 like there is fo=
r the
2.2 kernels?

Regards,
Hristo Chernev






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