watchdog network card

[JoaoBR]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 01:24, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> Wow.  Somehow we've slipped through a one-year timewarp:
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:47:54AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:40, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> > > After the last rebuild on my amd64-x2 box, both the nve ethernet
> > > on the motherboard and the dc ethernet that I had been using to
> > > work around other problems in the nve driver stopped working in
> > > this way.  DEVICE_POLLING and ifconfig...polling has got me
> > > going again.  I thoroughly recommend it.
> >
> > nve does not run polling mode but dc does
> >
> > I guess you have an IRQ conflict, nve and dc on the same hw interrupt, 
> > and that setting dc in polling mode worked around this problem then
> >
> > you could check vmstat -i with and without polling enabled to see it
>
> Thanks for the tip.  I haven't been running dc or nve for about
> a year, now :-)  Nfe has been working beautifully for me,
> without polling.  I guess that I should have a look to see if
> nve has improved in the interim, but it's difficult to make
> oneself mess with something that isn't broken...
>

nfe appears to work much better (also with polling) and flawless. I tried one 
and another time nve but nfe is what works, at least on amd64 and newer 
hardware so probably you don't need to waste your time ;)


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João







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