🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm using Linux version 2.4.7-10smp (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com)
(gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1

2.96-98)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 6 17:09:31 EDT 2001
with a 3Com NIC card using module 3c59x.

for some reason after running for a couple of hours through heavy traffic I
get the error:

Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed out
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel: eth2: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status
e601.
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   diagnostics: net 0cd8 media 8880 dma
0000003a.
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel: eth2: Interrupt posted but not delivered --
IRQ blocked by another device?
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 10856077(13)
current 10856077(13)
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   Transmit list 00000000 vs. deaf9540.
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   0: @deaf9200  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   1: @deaf9240  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   2: @deaf9280  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   3: @deaf92c0  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   4: @deaf9300  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   5: @deaf9340  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   6: @deaf9380  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   7: @deaf93c0  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   8: @deaf9400  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   9: @deaf9440  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   10: @deaf9480  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   11: @deaf94c0  length 800000d5 status
800100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   12: @deaf9500  length 800000d5 status
800100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   13: @deaf9540  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   14: @deaf9580  length 800000d5 status
000100d5
Jun 29 01:35:33 teeth kernel:   15: @deaf95c0  length 800000d5 status
000100d5

in the kernel message logs.

these lines of error appear every 10 seconds from then on. The system
becomes unrecheable remotly. (i.e. unseccessfull ping
or telnet).  However, from the terminal the system seem to be running fine
but I cannot reach any computer in the network.
Also at this point the other computers on the network have <incomplete> as a
MAC address value for the system in question.  I
checked if any other device was using the same IRQ, however that is not the
case.

Anyone knows anything about this or simply were I can find info about such
things?
--Sam