El Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:13:28 +0100 (BST)
Ian Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribio:

> This is my first posting so please bare with me.
> The connection to my home network crashes after a few minutes of
> activity, the connection will stay up for hours if I don't use the
> connection for anything. I am using it as a news server running
> leafnode. The only way I can get it up again is to reboot the system. I
> still haven't pinned down the problem. Has anyone else had this problem
> and if so haw did you fix it.

This is a coomon problem on Ultra1, you should upgrade or patch your kernel.
Some time ago, there was an updated kernel from Thorsten Kuku at SuSe 
(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/SPARC/kernel ),
but now i can not find this file.
Also , you can patch the original 7.3  kernel source with this patch from Joshua Uziel 
:

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--- drivers/net/sunhme.c.orig   
+++ drivers/net/sunhme.c        
@@ -1983,6 +1983,7 @@
        }
        hp->tx_old = elem;
        TXD((">"));
+       udelay(1);

        if (netif_queue_stopped(dev) &&
            TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(hp) > (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1))
-


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Good luck

Jorge Rivas


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