[tulip-bug] Capture Effect

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, John William wrote:

> >Which FA301TX card?  (Yes, there are several substantially different
> >versions).
> 
> Hardware revision D1, reports itself as:
> 
> 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21)
>         Subsystem: Netgear FA310TX

That's not especially informative: the "LNE100TX" string comes from the
Linksys board name, and is not the chip name.

> I'm sorry - I don't know what version of the PNIC chip it has. Is there 
> enough information in the card revision and PCI reporting to determine it?

The driver detection message...

> >It appears that the PNIC-I is pretty picky about PCI bus timing.  Here is
...
> Ok. That sounds like a reasonable explanation for why the card performs so 
> poorly on receive (and would explain the framing errors). I'd say it's more 
> than "some" however, under very heavy load, >90% of all packets are lost.

Then you likely don't have the PNIC hardware problem, which only
occasionally causes a dropped packet.

What driver version are you using?
Are there any driver error messages in the logs?


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