Re: resetting a network card
Nathan E Norman wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: We changed to the Intel e100 driver direct from the Intel site and the problem went away. That driver (well, the source code for it) is available in non-free as e100-source. Rob Weir in the other thread just reported that it is in the 2.4.20 kernel at this time. It has been freed. Yeah. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: resetting a network card
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mike M wrote: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:48:18 -0500 From: Mike M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gabriel Granger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: resetting a network card On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for answering. I am afraid that this is not what I want: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. So I want to somehow reset in order to see if this will solve my problem. Any other ideas please? snip I am curious about the type of card your are working with - RTL8139 by any chance? The problem you describe has a certain familiarity to it. -- Mike M. One of the network cards that I have seen the problem is a RTL8139. But I have also seen the same problem with 2 Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 network cards. cheers, Mihalis. - :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a network card
On Friday 07 March 2003 07:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mike M wrote: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:48:18 -0500 From: Mike M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gabriel Granger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: resetting a network card On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for answering. I am afraid that this is not what I want: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. So I want to somehow reset in order to see if this will solve my problem. Any other ideas please? snip I am curious about the type of card your are working with - RTL8139 by any chance? The problem you describe has a certain familiarity to it. -- Mike M. One of the network cards that I have seen the problem is a RTL8139. But I have also seen the same problem with 2 Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 network cards. Have you found any indications of a related problem in the /var/log/messages file? Something like Oversize Ethernet frame? -- Mike M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a network card
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Josh McKinney wrote: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:06:31 -0500 From: Josh McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: resetting a network card Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:25:19 -0600 (CST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On approximately Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Mike M wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for answering. I am afraid that this is not what I want: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. So I want to somehow reset in order to see if this will solve my problem. Any other ideas please? snip I am curious about the type of card your are working with - RTL8139 by any chance? The problem you describe has a certain familiarity to it. -- I second the thought about it being a cheap network card. A decent card shouldn't do that. But to answer your question you could do this: #/etc/init.d/networking stop #rmmod network_module.o #insmod network_module.o #/etc/init.d/networking start That should do the trick. You just need to find out the correct name of your NIC module. Josh Thank you very much for answering. The following way seams to work: # ifdown eth0; rmmod eepro100; ifup eth0 (As you can see it is not a cheap network card but I have seen the same problem to RTL network cards) I don't know for sure yet as I have to run a 8+ hours test to make sure but if I won't send another message about it, it will mean that it worked. many thanks to all of you, Mihalis. - :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a network card
I am curious about the type of card your are working with - RTL8139 by any chance? The problem you describe has a certain familiarity to it. -- Mike M. One of the network cards that I have seen the problem is a RTL8139. But I have also seen the same problem with 2 Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 network cards. Have you found any indications of a related problem in the /var/log/messages file? Something like Oversize Ethernet frame? -- Mike M. I don't remember such an error message. cheers, Mihalis. - :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a network card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. So I want to somehow reset in order to see if this will solve my problem. # ifdown eth0; rmmod eepro100; ifup eth0 (As you can see it is not a cheap network card but I have seen the same problem to RTL network cards) Sorry, coming late to this thread. I just answered this question in another too. Under a heavy load the eepro100 driver tends to drop out on the network. The eepro100 tends to complain about 'out of network resources' frequently under load and sometimes drops out. To fix reset the networking I put a cron '/etc/init.d/networking restart' script in place to work around the problem. Restarting would reset the network for us after a dropout. We changed to the Intel e100 driver direct from the Intel site and the problem went away. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: resetting a network card
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:53:26AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. So I want to somehow reset in order to see if this will solve my problem. # ifdown eth0; rmmod eepro100; ifup eth0 (As you can see it is not a cheap network card but I have seen the same problem to RTL network cards) Sorry, coming late to this thread. I just answered this question in another too. Under a heavy load the eepro100 driver tends to drop out on the network. The eepro100 tends to complain about 'out of network resources' frequently under load and sometimes drops out. To fix reset the networking I put a cron '/etc/init.d/networking restart' script in place to work around the problem. Restarting would reset the network for us after a dropout. We changed to the Intel e100 driver direct from the Intel site and the problem went away. That driver (well, the source code for it) is available in non-free as e100-source. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
resetting a network card
Hello list! I would like to know if it is possible to reset a network card without rebooting the computer. What I really like to do is to clean the statistics of the network card (those that are shown with ifconfig -a or with ifconfig -s). Many thanks in advance, Mihalis. - :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a network card
Hi, I'm not sure about resetting the stats for ifconfig, but if you use IPtables on your box, you can setup a accounting chain for the IP (i think you can also use the eth address, tho never have needed to do it by eth) which then logs the packets and data, you can then reset the IPtables accounting chain which effectively resets the accounting chain stats. I can supply IPtables information for setting this up if you wish. - Regards - Gabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list! I would like to know if it is possible to reset a network card without rebooting the computer. What I really like to do is to clean the statistics of the network card (those that are shown with ifconfig -a or with ifconfig -s). Many thanks in advance, Mihalis. - :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a network card
Thanks for answering. I am afraid that this is not what I want: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. So I want to somehow reset in order to see if this will solve my problem. Any other ideas please? cheers, Mihalis. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Gabriel Granger wrote: Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:58:56 + From: Gabriel Granger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: resetting a network card Hi, I'm not sure about resetting the stats for ifconfig, but if you use IPtables on your box, you can setup a accounting chain for the IP (i think you can also use the eth address, tho never have needed to do it by eth) which then logs the packets and data, you can then reset the IPtables accounting chain which effectively resets the accounting chain stats. I can supply IPtables information for setting this up if you wish. - Regards - Gabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list! I would like to know if it is possible to reset a network card without rebooting the computer. What I really like to do is to clean the statistics of the network card (those that are shown with ifconfig -a or with ifconfig -s). Many thanks in advance, Mihalis. - :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a network card
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:31:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list! I would like to know if it is possible to reset a network card without rebooting the computer. What I really like to do is to clean the statistics of the network card (those that are shown with ifconfig -a or with ifconfig -s). Many thanks in advance, Mihalis. Hmm, have you tried to compile your network card as module, and then unload it and load it again? Bye. -- +--+ | Martin Kacerovsky| | e-mail : wizard(AT)matfyz(DOT)cz | | home : http://wizard.matfyz.cz | +--+ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: resetting a network card
On approximately Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Mike M wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for answering. I am afraid that this is not what I want: The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - either in receive or in transmit, stops responding correctly. So I want to somehow reset in order to see if this will solve my problem. Any other ideas please? snip I am curious about the type of card your are working with - RTL8139 by any chance? The problem you describe has a certain familiarity to it. -- I second the thought about it being a cheap network card. A decent card shouldn't do that. But to answer your question you could do this: #/etc/init.d/networking stop #rmmod network_module.o #insmod network_module.o #/etc/init.d/networking start That should do the trick. You just need to find out the correct name of your NIC module. Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
