I haven't seen this message yet under NetBSD, but I have seen it 
under Linux.  In my home office, I've got about 7 machines 
connected in daisy chain on thinnet.  I've noticed that it
helps to have at least three turned on to avoid this error
on the Linux machine, but I haven't figured out why.

Doug


On Mon, 1 May 2000, Arno Griffioen wrote:

> I just stumbled on this..
> 
> I'm running 1.4U on my 3600 and it generally works fine.
> 
> But I did notice that sometimes it gives:
> 
> qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...
> 
> Then takes a little while and comes back on the net again.
> 
> I wondered why this happened as it didn't seem to be related to
> load and such. I can let it do big FTP transfers all day without 
> getting the message (and at about 300kbyte/sec I'm not complaining!)
> 
> It's hooked up to a 10/100 ethernet switch with a 10baseT transceiver.
> 
> Then I tried to ping another machine on my network, but it was down (no
> VAX ;-) and suddenly I got the 'qe0: xmit logic died, resetting...' again.
> 
> Interesting!
> 
> I tried it a few times and it always seems to do this. When a destination
> machine is UP: no problem, but when a machine is DOWN then I get the
> xmit logic error..
> 
> I haven't dug into the code yet, but I though I'd just ask the 'collective'
> here to see if anyone has a (possible) explanation..
> 
> Thanx!
> 
> 								Bye, Arno.
> 
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