From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 19:26:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9540837B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:26:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9A143F18 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:26:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <200301170326260030061ntfe>; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 03:26:26 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2551A48463; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:27:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Marco Beishuizen" , "stacey@vickiandstacey.com" Cc: "FreeBSD questions mailing list" , "Marc Schneiders" Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:27:50 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <1042762091.51041.450.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: TX underrun Message-Id: <20030117032749.2551A48463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message