Subject: Re: excessive MII/CRC errors from tlp with Macronix card....
To: NetBSD Networking Technical Discussion List <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/27/2001 19:59:16
[ On Friday, July 27, 2001 at 16:32:05 (-0700), Castor Fu wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: excessive MII/CRC errors from tlp with Macronix card....
>
> We would see problems like this fairly often with this chip and the
> sohoware cards. I ended up disabling full duplex in our configurations
> which mostly made things go away, but the problem would sometimes still
> creep up. Never did find out exactly what caused it, and when
> the chip got in this state, sometimes it wouldn't ever come out, and
> the interface would have to be reset.
Did you ever see any actual problems, performance or integrity related,
or just the noise from the driver complaining?
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