From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 08:39:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14133 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:39:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14119 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA11637; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:38:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808131538.IAA11637@implode.root.com> To: Bill Paul cc: bazilio@monitord.vrn.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some errors in XL driver ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:10:11 EDT." <199808131510.LAA27984@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:38:23 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >The oerrors counter is incremented either if there's a watchdog timeout, >or by the xl_stats_update() routine when reading the stats counters. >The only statistic that's counted as an output error is 'FramesDeferred,' >which the manual describes as the number of times a transmit packet must >defer to network traffic. These occur only in half-duplex modes, for >obvious reasons. Perhaps it's not correct to account for this as an >output error? I don't know exactly what it means by 'FramesDeferred', but I don't think it should be included as an output error. oerrors should only be incremented when a packet is dropped due to a failure of some kind, e.g. a too many collisions, DMA underrun, or device timeout. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message