On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Eugene Kuznetsov wrote:
> After much fumbling and some guidance (thank you, Alan Cox) I have figured
> out why my dual-Pentium SMP (2.1.125) machine periodically loses its
> AppleTalk. The 8390.c driver (used by the scary NE2000 ISA card in this
> machine) can corrupt a part of the card's multicast table, causing arbitrary
> (a few to all) portions of the AppleTalk network to become mutually invisible
> to the Linux box. Anything else that does multicast would also be affected
..
> slightly kludgie fix that takes care of the problem. So if anyone else is
> having appletalk problems with SMP+8390, this may be the cause.
I used to have similar problems on an SMP dual P150 with SMC Ultra (also
8390 based). The system ran gated for ospf...so was doing multicast.
About once a month, the ethernet would stop working. ifconfig eth0 down ;
rc.inet1 would fix it...but my final solution was to swap out the SMC
Ultra for a tulip based card. Hasn't happened since.
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