linux-kernel - Re: Bringing up secondary rtl8169-based interface causes network hang/dma issues

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Date:	Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:43:47 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Shane Arnold <clontarf_x@...et.net.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bringing up secondary rtl8169-based interface causes network
	hang/dma issues

Shane Arnold <clontarf_x@...et.net.au> :
> Well it seems I have solved it by disabling APIC and MSI/MSI-X  
> interrupts. Both NIC's up and playing nicely.
>
> Now just to figure out why it's not communicating with anything...

How can we tell that the nic are playing nicely if they are not
communicating with anything (i.e. no change in the rx / tx packets
count nor in ethtool statistitcs) ?

It is a bit confusing.

-- 
Ueimor
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