RE: DoS by small packets: eth0: Too much work at interrupt,IntrSt atus=0x0001.

["Molina, Thomas" <thomas molina ngc com>]

> >Is there a chance to avoid this problem? Is it know bug?
> >
> >I see a lot of lines with this error message in dmesg output:
> >
> >eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
> >
> We had a similar problem, with an "8169" gigabit card, though. It
> was some bizarre Taiwanese (?) brand -- "Zen", I think.
> Resetting the driver -- ifconfig down, rmmod, modprobe, ifconfig up
> would work for a while, but the real answer was to get a different
> ethernet card.

That is one reason why I've become a big fan of IBM's e100 and e1000 cards; they just work.