Oversized ethernet problems

[P.A.M. van Dam (Pascal)]

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:51:56PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, P.A.M. van Dam (Pascal) wrote:
> 
> OK, it's likely not a burst-size bug.
> I still suspect an unreported PCI bus error of some sort.  It appears to be
> shifting the Rx status word from its expected location.
> 
> One suggestion from the list is updating to the latest 2.3.* kernel, which
> reports some PCI problem with some chipsets.

I'll try to run a 2.3.22/2.3.23pre this evening and report my findings.

Thanx!

Best regards,

	Pascal

> 
> It may be that I'll have to add in code to emit the data words before and
> after the expected status location to see if they contain a valid status
> word.
> 
> Donald Becker
> Scyld Computing Corporation, and
> USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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