[tulip-bug] Capture Effect

[John William]

>From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
<snip>
>The driver detection message...

"Found a Lite-On 82c168 PNIC adapter at 0xfe00."

> > 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?

Driver 0.91g - the driver included with the stock 2.2.17 kernel. Under light 
load, the machine will go weeks without any ethernet errors at all. If I try 
and ftp a big file to the machine, I'll get almost 100% frame errors on all 
packets and *very* poor performance. If I try pinging the machine with "ping 
-l 8192" from a Windows machine, every ping packet will give a frame error 
(and 100% loss from the Windows machine's point of view).

No error messages at all in the logs.

- Bill

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