Is anyone looking at the problems with the Tulip network driver on the Cobalt Qube 2 ? I've started poking around but am not getting very far ... The card works okay for a few minutes but then something gets very confused in the receive ring. If the card is being pinged with packets once a second it generates a receive interrupt for every packet, but the first receive ring entry is marked busy so the packet's not passed up. Once we've received 32 packets the NIC wraps round the receive ring and the entry we've been waiting on gets marked as full. Now the receive interrupt removes that last packet and the 31 preceding ones in one go. Then we stall for another 32 seconds. It looks like we're loosing some of the NIC's writes to the receive ring status entries in main memory ... P.
