[Novalug] sky2 driver

[Stephen Chapman]

I am using CentOS 5 2.6.18-8.el5.  And this really all started when I 
started passing high amounts of traffic through this server.  Before 
this I cannot remember it happening.  I did not try to remove sky2 and 
add it back with modprobe.  I just did a network restart.  So I can try 
this.. However This machine has 2 matching Network ports side by side. I 
do not have any problem with eth1 only eth0 which seems strange.

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 2:44:34 pm Stephen Chapman wrote:
>   
>> I have had issues maybe 2 times a month where my network connection will 
>> fail with the following error
>>     
> ...
>   
>> the only thing that will fix it is rebooting the machine. 
>>     
>
> What kernel are you using?  Through 2.6.17 (I think...) sky2 would crap out at 
> high throughput.  I always fixed it with:
> # modprobe -r sky2
> # modprobe sky2
>
> That'll unload and reload it just like what happens to the driver when you 
> reboot.  Or did you already try that and it didn't work? If that doesn't work, 
> I'm curious about what your system is doing during boot that's different than a 
> plain modprobe.
>
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