Subject: Re: le0: overflow
To: Chris J. Mutter <chris@terminal.sil.at>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/16/1998 20:04:36
Have you tried swapping out the cables?
Just as an idea, have you tried running ttcp (its in pkgsrc)
between the sun and other boxes to see what sort of throughput
you're getting?
on one box 'ttcp -s -t -fm host2'
on host2 'ttcp -s -r -fm'.
David/absolute
"Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?"
"Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good..."
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Chris J. Mutter wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Ive got a SparcStation 1 and cause of noise/power consumption I decided to
> go for the diskless setup. Everythings find. Root over NFS.
>
> I primary want to use it as X11 display (login into one of the other
> unix boxes with XDM) but I get tons of le0:overflow kernel warnings.
> It is the only machine on a BNC network (behind is 10/100mbit switched
> TP-lan). Is there a option in the kernel config where I can assign more
> network buffers or any other way to get rid of the le0:overflow without
> just commenting it out in the appropriate .c file for the link-layer?
>
> another question:
> Is there a possibility to swap with netbsd to a NFS mount?
>
> regards,
> chrisjm
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