Help! - Interlan NI-1010A hangs too often

[Kirk Smith]

In article <146 at hslrswi.UUCP> robert at hslrswi.UUCP writes:
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>	Hanging Interlan NI-1010A board on 4.2bsd Vax-11/750
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>Has anyone had experience of an Interlan NI-1010A Ethernet board
>repeatedly hanging ?

All you need to do is install a timeout in the driver.
Start the timer when you transmit a packet.  If 2 seconds
go by without a transmit complete interrupt, re-init the board,
(drop the packet), and take off running again.
We had to do this within 1 week of installing 4.2BSD networking.
With us, this condition happens under normal use about 10 times a day.

			Kirk Smith
			Purdue Engineering Computer Network