[Novalug] sky2 driver

[Mackenzie Morgan]

I could have the kernel version wrong.  I just remember that it started 
working properly more than a year ago and less than 2 years ago.

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 3:15:05 pm Stephen Chapman wrote:
> 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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Mackenzie Morgan
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