anyone with bmac network problem?

[Albrecht Dreß]

Takashi Oe wrote:
> 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.
>
> This problem is hard to reproduce in that it takes time and you must have
> busy traffic.  I can say I have not been able to reproduce the problem
> when the patch is applied, whereas I could eventually reproduce the bmac
> hang without the patch, but YMMV.

IT WORKS!!! My test is to run the security scanner nessus against several hosts
in parallel, and it *always* crashed the network. Now it works like a dream,
absolutely stable. Good work, indeed!!! When does it go into the standard
kernel?

Thanks, Albrecht.

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