anyone with bmac network problem?

[Gerd Knorr]

Takashi Oe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for testers on a possible workaround for bmac network problem.
> As some of you might know, bmac tx dies abruptly when network environment
> is very busy and never recovers.  A patch enclosed might alleviate the
> situation, and I want to know if it works for anybody else.
>
> --- bmac.c.ORIG	Sun Dec 10 18:49:42 2000
> +++ bmac.c	Thu Mar 15 12:38:00 2001
[ ... ]

Cool, seems to fix it for me.  My box (RevB iMac) survived a full motif
build on a NFS filesystem without problems.  Looks like I can turn
of my network-card-monitor-cronjob now (ifconfig down/up used to bring
the box online again with the buggy driver, which was exactly what the
crobjob did if it wasn't able to ping the default gateway).

  Gerd

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