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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:04:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_fxp and pause packets (or, "I didn't need the network anyway")
Message-ID:  <200212121704.gBCH4DiF010233@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212112308070.32698-100000@root.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021211215617.2056C-100000@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212112308070.32698-100000@root.org>

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<<On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:09:46 -0800 (PST), Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> said:

> I've noticed this too with fxp.  It only happens while in ddb and I
> thought it was my fault (I was debugging some networking problems).

It happens when the NIC's receive queue fills up.  When you're in DDB,
the kernel is not answering network interrupts.

-GAWollman


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