I'm having some strange problems with two different systems running the 2.4 kernel (2.4.3, 4, and 5 tested) with two VIA Rhine cards (D-Link 530TX card I think, they are definately the VIA VT3043 Rhine chipset though). The problem is that every once in a while, the network will just drop, no traffic will flow for a few seconds/minutes, nothing shows up in the logs (*.* /var/log/everything in syslog) and then it will suddenly correct itself. Sometimes doing a ping from the machine to an outside host will bring everything back up immediately. Now, I have another machine that has one VIA Rhine card (same D-Link) and a tulip card (D-Link 528 or 538 I think, Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 33) where this problem does not occur. Any ideas? Should I try using the original Donald Becker driver at http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html or is Jeff's modified version that is in the current source tree considered to be more current? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
