Re: Lanfinity keeps breaking under load.

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Bernhard Sessner wrote:

> Am Montag, 21. April 2003 20:14 schrieb Donald Becker:
> > > The problem is always the same: Under a high (mostly) NFS transmit
> > > load, the interface stops working completely.
> >
> > Where is the error message from the driver when it stops?
> 
> There is no real error message. It just stops. Of course transfers time 
> out after that but nothing tells me that the interface actually broke 
> down.

There should be a message.
A timer checks that the chip is still transitting.  If the packets back
up, the driver prints a message with the chip status.

You can use
   mii-diag --msg-level 0xffff
when the interface stops to enable all messages.

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