From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
To: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>

> > I recently upgraded a MicroVAX 3, with a DELQA card, to
> > NetBSD 1.4.2. I was under the impression that the network-related
> > "Ring Overrun" errors had been corrected in this release.
> >
> > Unfortunately, they are still present. Less frequent, to be sure,
> > but still present.
> >
> > Can anyone please shed some light on why?
>
> It has been fixed, but we're talking about -current. It will *not* show up
> in any 1.4.x release. It will get in at 1.5. So, either upgrade to
> -current, or learn to live with it. The whole driver has been rewritten i
> -current.

Just for the fun of it, I replaced the 1.4.2 version with the 2000517
snapshot (..../arch/vax/snapshot/20000517)

It's true. The "ring overrun" errors are gone.
They are replaced with tons of

"qe0: xmit logic died, resetting ..."

messages ;-)

cheers,
emanuel