> Has anybody else seen output lossage with the 'de' driver?
> 
> I've got a multia at home being an X display, connected on a (very
> small 8-) ethernet with a 386/20 which is my gateway to the outside
> world.)
> 
> Occasionally -- twice today, but i don't think i've ever noticed it
> before -- the multia has simply stopped talking correctly to the
> ethernet.
> 
> The symptoms: the little traffic lights on my ethernet tranceivers go
> on for longer than they should when i ping (instead of being a blip,
> the ping looks like it's dribbling out of the machine, and i see
> several short, quick blips), and the de interface's output error
> counter increases.

I've seen the same symptoms on a small ethernet (mine's bigger than
yours 8-), but I was never sure that it was the AXPpci running NetBSD
that was causing it. It doesn't happen very often, but at the times
it has, there was some hefty NFS stuff (both server and client) going on.

BTW, a bigger pain is the fact that the AXPpci running NetBSD/Alpha
locks up after periods of no user activity (like leaving the machine
on overnight with nobody logged on). The machine is up-to-date with
the 1.2 sources that -current has been putting out on sup.

> 
> 
> anybody?
> 
> chris
> 

Regards,


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