Re: Strange ping timings

Joshua Uziel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Bjoern Schaefer <[email protected]> [020725 21:10]:
> I'm running a ultra1 with Suse 7.3 ,Kernel 2.4 and
> hme ethernet driver.
> 
> So far, everything works fine, but sometimes my
> eth0 hangs up. If I make a network restart/reload
> it still hangs. Only a system reboot fix this problem.

I've noticed the lockup as well with recent kernels.  My guess is it's a
timing issue on the U1 onboard sunhme chips and no other hme's, as I've
only heard of it happening on those.  Here's my posting on
[email protected] ...

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=102672972725064&w=2

Try that one-liner patch and see if it helps you out any.


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