Simultanious transmits seems to cause hang on pcnet32

2006-07-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
I am currently doing some testing on my system and managing to totally hang the system (so that the watchdog has to come along and reboot it). The setup is this: I have a PLX PCI-PCI bridge with 4 79C972 chips behind it, each running 100baseTX. I am transmitting traffic from a smartbits test

Re: Simultanious transmits seems to cause hang on pcnet32

2006-07-18 Thread Don Fry
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:20:17AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I am currently doing some testing on my system and managing to totally hang the system (so that the watchdog has to come along and reboot it). The setup is this: I have a PLX PCI-PCI bridge with 4 79C972 chips behind it, each

Re: Simultanious transmits seems to cause hang on pcnet32

2006-07-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:57:47AM -0700, Don Fry wrote: I don't know what a 'smartbits test system' is or how it works. Could you please briefly explain what it is and does? It is a network test system built by spirent (www.spirentcom.com). It is mainly a layer 2 test system (you configure