Sudden Reboots

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:43:27PM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote:
> I had a problem like this only it was a weekly occurrence.   I tracked 
> it down to the network card driver.  After swapping out the network 
> card with a different brand/chipset, the problem was resolved.  In my 
> case, i had entries in the log related to an overflowed buffer.  Packet 
> sizes were very large and like clockwork based on traffic patterns the 
> machine rebooted weekly.  This happened to me on 5.21 release.
> 
> i never got around to looking at the driver code as I talked my 
> employer into buying a 3com card :)

Or it could be a broken card.  Hardware does strange things when it
breaks, you know ;-)

Kris
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