Problem with TX/RX-network-card-counters

Hello all,

today I ran into a problem with the TX/RX-counters of my tulip network cards. I run the box under 2.2.19 with tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [email protected], but this may be of common interest. Plain and simple my TX counter reached 2G and the network connection just broke down. I don't exactly know why, but this is obviously a bug. There are two solutions possible for this:

1) wrap around the counter and restart them at zero.
2) enlarge the counter from (possibly) int or 32-bit to at least 64 bit.

I favor 2) very much, because wrap-around has a real m*d*s flair ;-)

Is this network-card specific? Is this fixed in 2.4 or later?

Regards,
Stephan