From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 16 10:11:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71ED37B526 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@boostworks.com) Received: from luxren2.boostworks.com (luxren2.boostworks.com [194.167.81.214]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EA2132E8 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:10:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from boostworks.com (root@oldrn.luxdev.boostworks.com [192.168.1.99]) by luxren2.boostworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA84958; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:10:47 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200002161810.TAA84958@luxren2.boostworks.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:10:39 +0100 (CET) From: Remy Nonnenmacher Reply-To: remy@boostworks.com Subject: Re: xl0 packet dropping, still To: cokane@one.net Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000215210704.A969@evil.2y.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Feb, Coleman Kane wrote: > Well, I switched my xl0 ethernet carc, but I am still recieving > messages saying that there are packets being dropped. Sometimes this > results in the card being shut down. > > --cokane See commit message for Rev 1.71 of if_xl.c: seems to be a known problem with some 3com cards, especially when receiving a lot of packets. It's funny to note that this problem is even not fixed in Win$ drivers !!. A workaround is to set them to 10Mb/s, half-dup. RN. IhM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message