GNIC II results & bug reports.

[Johns Daniel]

May be I can help at this point!

> From: 	Claude Lefrancois
> Sent: 	Thursday, October 29, 1998 12:33 PM
> To: 	Claude Lefrancois
> Cc: 	becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov; yellowfin@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov;
> david.skingsley@bt-sys.bt.co.uk
> Subject: 	GNIC II results & bug reports.
> 
> Claude Lefrancois writes:
> 
> The GNIC-II card is now installed in a 64-bit PCI slot and works just
> fine. Nerver install a SCSI controller in a 64-bit slot... I also get
> rid of the NMI problem by moving the SCSI controller in a 32-bit PCI
> slot.
> 
>  > eth2: Hamachi transmit timed out, status 00003803, resetting...
>  >   Rx ring 0ade9020:  0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
> 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
> 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
> 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
> 0000d000 0000d000 0000f000
>  >   Tx ring 0ade9120:  4000 4000 4000 4000 4000 4000 4000 4000 4000 4000
> 4000 4000 4000 4000 4000 6000
> 
> This seems to be the last unsolved problem !!!
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Claude.
> 
The message below helped me a lot! YMMV....
The other thing I have noticed is once I have a
problem with this card, rebooting does not help
-- I have to power down the machine.

> From: 	Chris Worley
> Sent: 	Monday, October 26, 1998 5:50 PM
> To: 	Johns Daniel
> Subject: 	Re: GNIC-II "skput:over"
> 
> change:
> 
>  /* Keep the ring sizes a power of two for compile efficiency.
>    Making the Tx ring too large decreases the effectiveness of channel
>    bonding and packet priority.
>    There are no ill effects from too-large receive rings. */
> #define TX_RING_SIZE    16
> #define RX_RING_SIZE    32
> 
> to about 512 for transmit, about 256 for receive.
> 
> Chris
> 
-- Johns
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Johns Daniel, Senior Engineer        jdaniel@systran.com
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