Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:18:47 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, dchapes@borderware.com (Dave Chapeskie) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XL0 Message-ID: <4.1.19981028131749.00b16da0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <199810281330.IAA12402@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <98Oct26.110114est.115594@gateway.borderware.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Yeah it's a B series according to the box. As it was, my packets weren't getting through with the XL0 driver running (screwup in the ifconfig maybe) so I went back to the ep0 device for now. I'll venture back into the other side sometime next week. At 08:29 AM 10/28/98 -0500, Bill Paul wrote: >Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dave Chapeskie >had to walk into mine and say: > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:43:17PM -0400, Drew Baxter wrote: >> > Got my dmesg output for the day.. (this is probably my 2nd day of using my >> > XL card instead of a EP0'd 3c509), and i see this.. Anyone able to shed >> > some light on it? It runs fine otherwise, not sure if this is killing >> > performance when we have this happen or not. >> > >> > > xl0: transmission error: 82 >> [repeats] > >The latest version of the xl driver tries to avoid these by increasing >the transmit reclaim threshold. Note however that according to the >manual, these errors only appear with the 3c90xB adapters, not the >3c90x adapters. Consequently, the driver only fiddles with the reclaim >threshold if it detects that the adapter is a 3c90xB. This leads me to >believe you have a 3c905B-TX instead of a 3c905-TX, although you didn't >say so. If you do have a 3c900 or 3c905 and still see the error, then the >3Com manual is lying to me. > >Like the other mail says, these errors indicate that an error was >encountered after the chip had already started deleting the packet >from its internal memory. I only recently discovered the command to >change the transmit reclaim threshold. The change to increase the >threshold happened sometime last week. > >-Bill > >-- >============================================================================= >-Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu >Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research >Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City >============================================================================= > "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" >============================================================================= --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.1.19981028131749.00b16da0>