Re: [Netatalk-admins] NICs [Was:] netatalk crashing Linux server

[G. A. H. <ada...@sa...>]

I am going to back up what everybody (notably Thomas and Simon) have 
said about a different version of the OS, especially linux 2.2.x

The reason is that I have heard of three sysadmins (two of which I 
trust) report problems with the 2.4.x series of kernels and the network 
stack (TCP/IP) for some cards - one was having trouble with samba, the 
other two with NFS - all three reportedly had no problems with (almost) 
identically configured versions of the 2.2.x version of the kernel.

hope that helps,
cheers,
Adam.

On Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002, at 23:32 Europe/London, Thomas Schierle 
wrote:

> On 2002-11-27 15:39 +0100, Simon Bazley wrote:
>
>> If its the chipset, you may have a buggy driver or buggy
>> software on the chip.  Changing to a different network card completely
>> should fix this.  I would reccomend RTL8139 or RTL8029 (from realtek)
>
> Personally, I agree with the 8029 recommendation (I have been running
> 8029s server side for a long time without any trouble), but for the
> RTL8139 -- drivers (btw, choose your poison?) have still been under
> development in Linux 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 cycle, therefore I doubt
> that chip is suitable for a Linux server ... probably not enough 
> workarounds
> 'til date for a flawed design.
>
> While we are at NIC recommendations, the SMC EtherPower II (epic100 
> driver)
> I'm running LAN-side, works perfectly here since 2.4.18, even minor
> problems, like sometimes not getting initialized upon computer restart,
> are ironed out. Those of you looking for a new NIC might want to give 
> it a
> try -- it has been one of the favorite pets of Novell admins since 
> years.
>
>
> -Thomas
>
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