John Marohn wrote:
> I have the card working with NetBSD, sorta.  For a test, I ftp'd a 15MB file
> from two different machines.  When the first transfer started, I got the
> following message: "warning - receiver ring buffer overrun" twice.  No
> other error messages were displayed.  About 5 minutes after the test,
> another message appeared: "Last message repeat 96 times".  In short, ftping
> 30MB of data causes the overrun message to occur 98 times!  Does anyone
> have an idea or two of
> what I can do to correct this?  I am assuming here that this message doesn't
> hurt anything except throughput.

i believe that the message you're getting generally indicates that the
card's receiving data faster than the kernel is handling it, i.e. the
interrupts aren't getting serviced fast enough.  what kind of machine is
this, and are you doing anything else at the same time?

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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