vizi0n (debian-mips) wrote: > hi everyone! > > i had a quick question regarding my cobalt raq2+ (the one with 2 nic > and a scsi port). > > for no apparrent reason once in a while, one of the nic gets > "overloaded" if i can say so (most of the time eth0, which is my lan), > by this i mean that the data doesn't go through it anymore and doing > a ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 does fix the problem. did anyone ever had > that problem before? i would be really grateful, since this box is > now my router and i often have to connect to it and reload eth0. > > i am wondering if this problem is mips specific (drivers problem?) > or if it is on all platforms.
The problem is known and seems to be bound to some cobalt/mips specific way to use the NIC driver. Debugging it further failed so far, mostly due to the lack of test hardware. Thiemo
