Subject: Re: 100base DEC ethernet cards
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/25/1998 10:54:03
At 10:13 AM 9/25/98 , Matthias Scheler wrote:
>In article <01BDE820.6D00AC00@stevep>,
>	Steve Paul <stevep@mccue.com> writes:
>> and eventually, I get a few of these:
>> de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 96|256)
>> de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 8|512)
>> de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 1024)
>
>As long as the driver doesn't switch to store and forward mode you don't
>really have a problem.

Actually, store and forward isn't a problem either.  It just increases the
latency of transmissions slightly.
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