Subject: Re: Strange Intel gigabit card behaviour (wm)
To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
From: Joseph A. Dacuma <jadacuma@ched.gov.ph>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/09/2006 03:03:38
Hi Mr. Chuck Swiger!

Greetings! :) Thanks for you speedy reply again.

>
> Are you using VLAN tagging?  An off-by-4 error is suggestive, perhaps you
> need
> to enable some option for VLAN_MTU (1504) if such traffic is on your
> network?

No sir, though I have that on my kernel config.

wm0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities=87<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM,TSO4>
        enabled=0
        address: 00:11:25:42:eb:c0
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)
        status: active
        inet x.x.x.x netmask x broadcast x.x.x.x
        inet6 fe80::211:25ff:fe42:ebc0%wm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ssid ""
        powersave off
        address: 00:0e:35:a8:5e:9d
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
        status: no network

lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3

>
> Otherwise, are you using jumbo frames?  Try turning them off...

Is jumbo frames enabled by default on wm gigabit devices? My laptop is
just hooked on either a 10/100 dual speed hub and switch. Devices which
are not jumbo frame capable by any strech of imagination. :)


Joseph