60266 – gentoo-sources driver for RTL8169 (r8169.c) freezes system

Bug 60266 - gentoo-sources driver for RTL8169 (r8169.c) freezes system

Summary: gentoo-sources driver for RTL8169 (r8169.c) freezes system

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 60264

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2004-08-13 13:18 UTC by norbert kamenicky
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description norbert kamenicky 2004-08-13 13:18:13 UTC

I noticed random machine freezes during big uploads using scp.
Because scp on localhost worked properly, I made "flood" ping test
from remote machine ... gentoo got freezed in few minutes.

Kernel gentoo-sources-2.4.26-r*
platform P4, x86 stable
RTL8169 onboard, driver compiled as module

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
On remote machine run "flood" ping similar to this:

   ping -f -s1500 -p1234567890 ip-of-rtl8169-iface-on-gentoo

and let it run until gentoo freezes.


Actual Results:  
Gentoo with kernel 2.4.26-r8 and rtl8169 driver freezes in few minutes.

Expected Results:  
Normal ping answer.

google fed with "r8169 freeze" shows a lot of links related
to this problem

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-13 13:25:54 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60264 ***