Re: mass "tulip_stop_rxtx() failed", network stops

[jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@gmail.com>]

On 8/23/05, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@mch.one.pl> wrote:
> We are running almost 20 Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic machines, 2.6.8.1
> kernel, equipped with a onboard card that uses a tulip module:
> 
> 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast
> Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
> 
> No problem with those.
> 
> 
> We are running four more machines like that, the only difference is the
> kernel they are running (2.6.11.4).
> 
> On some of them, there are serious problems with a network, and they
> usually happen when the traffic is bigger than usual (i.e., some big
> software deployment to several workstations, remote backup, etc.).
> 
> The syslog is then full of entries like that:
> 
> Aug 21 04:04:30 SERVER-B-HS kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit
> timed out
> Aug 21 04:04:30 SERVER-B-HS kernel: 0000:00:06.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed

I am seeing thousands of tulip_stop_rxtx() failed messages as well
with 2.6.11. No regular network failure though.

See http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/110291/flat

Cheers,

Jerome