In my research, I am constantly filling up our 10 and 100 Mbps ethernet networks. The problem is that Red Hat freezes up everytime I run at full speed and must be rebooted. I know it's not a network card problem because M.S. Windows works greate with the exact same network cards. And it happens on all the cards I have tried.
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Can you be a little bit more specific on which cards it was, some way to reproduce it and why you chose ethtool component (a utility for changing ethernet parameters on certain Sun cards) - this bug is most probably against the kernel component, not ethtool.
Which kernel are you using? I had the same problem with RH 6.2 kernel 2.2.14, then I upgraded to 2.2.16-3 and everything is fine now,...so far(a week so far) -Dang
Sorry for submitting it under the ethtool component. I wasn't sure which component to submit it under and that seemed the closest.. I am running kernet 2.2.14. My system is a Dell Optiplex GX1 running a PII 450, 256 MB ram. I use the standard ethernet card on the motherboard. To reproduce it, start an ethernet broadcast storm and see if your computer can recover from it without rebooting. We have several ASA computers running dual 266's and uses a standard 3com 10/100 ethernet card and has the same problem. They too are running kernel 2.2.14. The only computer that lives is the Dell Poweredge 4300 which has 4 Xeon 550's and a gig of ram. It too is running kernel 2.2.14. Unfortunately I can't get to it's ethernet card because it can't be shut down for a while. You mentioned it could be a kernel problem. We think it might be a driver problem too.
Yes, but a kernel driver bug is kernel bug. Can you try 2.2.16 if it fixes the locks?
This certainly fits a bug that was fixed in the driver - its not a full pipe its huge numbers of bad frames (eg collisions)