I emailed this 3 weeks ago without response. I think it is rather important:
>I have identified a few existing problems with the eepro100 v.1.09t driver:
>
>1) speedo_show_stats will crash if a ringp[i] receive ring entry is null
>2) the driver does not recover from a situation where the receiver cannot
replace multiple a receive sk_buff (related to above).
>
>There doesnt seem to be a working cleanup procedure to replenish failed
buffer allocation ring entries under extreme conditions
>
>After fixing 1), after a transmit timeout all receive on the interface
ceases (although network buffers in use is down to 38 or so, indicating
that buffers are available).
>
>ifconfig eth1 down
>ifconfig eth1 up
>
>restores operation.
>
>This can be created by having a system with a 100Mb/s interface and a
10Mb/s and flooding the 100Mb/s interface with traffic...I think that the
receive queue grows until memory is exhausted (another separate issue
perhaps)....
>
>Let me know if you have any simple fixes for it please.
>
>Dennis Baasch
>
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