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Re: Random network lossage on nfe(4)



On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:13:31PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20080417103426.GA5336%frohike.homeunix.org@localhost>,
> Peter Bex  <Peter.Bex%xs4all.nl@localhost> wrote:
> >-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I updated from 4.0 to -current (snapshot of April 12th) and now I get
> >random network corruption on my nfe(4) NIC.  Sometimes the corruptions
> >happen very soon (when doing operations like 'svn update', which causes
> >a lot of traffic), and sometimes it happens after several hours, mostly
> >when the network traffic is not so high.
> >
> >This used to work fine in 4.0, so I wonder if something changed recently
> >in this driver?  Or do the changes in the scheduler have some kind of
> >influence on this driver?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Peter Bex
> 
> I saw that too a week ago and I synced the driver with openbsd and it fixed
> the problem. I've committed the changes just now.

This is hardly a fix.  It simply disabled support for jumbo frames.

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Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
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