Re: Cisco vpnclient problems with e100

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 19:50 -0700, Edward F. Brown wrote:
> > I have a problem with the vpnclient on a system with the e100 card.
> > With a regular connection, I'm golden.
> > Once connected, the browsing the web hangs. Scp doesn't copy.
> >
> > Is there fix for this?
> 
> Steve,
> 
> There is a known issue with the e100 driver and the cisco vpn software. 
> The recommended (don't have a readme or url here) workaround is to use the
> eepro100 driver instead.  Try:
> 
> ifdown eth0
> rmmod e100
> modprobe eepro100
> ifup eth0

this "works" because the eepro100 driver doesn't do zero copy normally,
and thus avoiding the bad bugs in the cisco client somewhat...
You can call it lucky.. but eepro100 by far doesn't work on all cards
that e100 supports nowadays...