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From: ks@pur-ee.UUCP (Kirk Smith)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Help! - Interlan NI-1010A hangs too often
Message-ID: <3653@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 21:59:21 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 21:59:21 1986
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References: <146@hslrswi.UUCP>
Reply-To: ks@pur-ee.UUCP (Kirk Smith)
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Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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Summary: 

In article <146@hslrswi.UUCP> robert@hslrswi.UUCP writes:
>
>	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