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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:27:50 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Marco Beishuizen" <marco@beishuizen.info>, "stacey@vickiandstacey.com" <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD questions mailing list" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Marc Schneiders" <marc@schneiders.org>
Subject:   Re: TX underrun
Message-ID:  <20030117032749.2551A48463@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <1042762091.51041.450.camel@localhost>

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On 17 Jan 2003 00:08:11 +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote:

>> I only had one message like this, so I think it would be best to wait and
>> see if i get message mor often. I think my cables are OK.
>
>Is this a Linksys nic? I only ask because the only occasion that *I*
>have heard of this becoming a problem (causing a kernel panic) had to do
>with a Linksys nic repeatedly putting out those messages over a period
>of time, with the box resetting itself some time after messages
>appeared.
>
>I feel its only fair to mention this. But if, as you say, that this is
>only the one message then I would imagine that there's less of a chance
>that a problem exists, but on the other hand, it wouldn't hurt to
>monitor for a few days..,

my 3com 905s do that about 50% of the time; however, I haven't noticed
more than about 3 or 4 over a month's amount of time.

does anyone know of a way to automatically increase the buffers to say
like 256 bytes?

I always thought 3com had a decent NIC; I guess I was wrong.

---
doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net



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