[Samba] Streaming large videos causes server's networking to crash

[Paul Accisano]

Of course.  The only problem is that the PCI-E 16x slot next to my PCI-E 
1x slot is taken with a RAID controller, so my options are limited to 
tiny cards.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166015
That one looks fine, but the Newegg comments seem to indicate it is also 
a Realtek-based device.  Would it not have the same problem?

To Quinn, here's the output of lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by
joydev                 20864  0
hid_microsoft          12676  0
usbhid                 47040  0
video                  29204  0
output                 11648  1 video
input_polldev          12688  0
lp                     19588  0
ppdev                  16904  0
pcspkr                 11136  0
snd_hda_intel         557364  0
iTCO_wdt               21712  0
iTCO_vendor_support    12420  1 iTCO_wdt
psmouse                64028  0
serio_raw              14468  0
snd_pcm                99336  1 snd_hda_intel
parport_pc             45096  1
snd_timer              34064  1 snd_pcm
parport                49584  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
snd                    78792  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
intel_agp              39280  0
soundcore              16800  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         18704  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
shpchp                 44572  0
r8169                  46596  0
mii                    14464  1 r8169
arcmsr                 36096  3
fbcon                  49792  0
tileblit               11264  1 fbcon
font                   17024  1 fbcon
bitblit                14464  1 fbcon
softcursor             10368  1 bitblit

--Paul A.

Eero Volotinen wrote:
> Paul Accisano kirjoitti:
>> Sure enough, I apparently have a Realtek device as well.  But 
>> swapping motherboards is absolutely not an option for me...  Surely 
>> there's something that can be done!
>
> Well, can you buy better ethernet card?
>
>
>> Jul 29 01:13:21 DITE kernel: [ 4616.040048] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 
>> (r8169): transmit timed out
>
> I think this is related to ethernet controller or irq issues on 
> motherboard.
>
> -- 
> Eero
>