hi Jeff - i thought NAPI is useful when router deals with _LOTS_ of interrupts at once most of the time.. i have done some tests with 2Mb/s with 8139too and 2.4.20 (other PC) and there was NO message like this (too much work..). thx adam > do you have any idea what the problem can be? yes, it needs NAPI. :) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html