Subject: Re: Gigabit Ethernet support on gmac?
To: Monroe Williams <monroe@criticalpath.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/21/2001 13:45:46
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:23:09AM -0700, Monroe Williams wrote:

 > Continued testing causes the interface to stuff up completely after a few
 > minutes.  There are no console messages when it reaches this state, but once
 > it does, absolutely nothing will pass.  I've seen this a couple of times:
 > 
 >     [root@kenny monroe]# ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
 >     PING xxx.xxx.xxx.xx (xxx.xxx.xxx.xx): 56 data bytes
 >     ping: sendto: No buffer space available
 >     ping: sendto: No buffer space available
 >     ^C
 >     ----xxx.xxx.xxx.xx PING Statistics----
 >     2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
 >     [root@kenny monroe]#
 > 
 > I've never seen this particular error message before, but it looks ominous.

Ok, I think this bug may be fixed.  There was the possibility of the
descriptor producer index wrapping around and getting confused.  Make
sure you have:

	$NetBSD: gem.c,v 1.9 2001/10/21 20:45:15 thorpej Exp $

and try again.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>