Re: stability problem, disappearing interfaces

From: M Khomo (mkhomo_at_ostecs.com)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:05:04 -0500

Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, mips wrote:
>
>
>>I had troubles with 8139 at work and since they have been swapped with
>>3com gears these troubles disapeared. I also know people that had
>>troubles with realtek cards too, so no it's not a myth.
>
>
> at last, a confirmed report. :) what kind of trouble were you having?
> i'd like to separate out the problems that come from the nic and the ones
> that don't.
>

My bad experience with rl was not when using one, but when trying to add
a second one. Always only the first one in the ifconfig sequence worked,
and the other layed stone dead. On switching the assignments around, the
working one went stone dead and the previously dead one worked. I ran
into this around the 3.2 cutover or maybe the 3.3 cutover. For me life's
too short to sweat multiple rl's.

MK