Subject: Re: BUG IN IF_ED DRIVER PERSISTS UNTIL TODAY.
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/30/1996 21:26:22
buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow) writes:

> 
> [...]
>
> Aug 25 16:50:55 baloo /netbsd: ed2: remote transmit DMA failed to complete
> 
> At which point, if the packet in question happens to be an outgoing packet
> for a telnet session, or any other tcp session, that tcp flow, in one
> direction only, is hosed due to the fact that baloo, the NetBSD host in
> question, is sending out garbage retransmits.  I have a trace, as taken by
> a network general sniffer, showing this very predicable behavior.

If you send me the trace, and more information on the hardware, I will
look at this more.  It would also help to know something about what
the packet should have contained, like source and destination
addresses.