(this thread was about 'Tx timeout' errors from 3c59x driver)
Well, I did notice far more harmfull errors than Tx timeouts
in 3c95x.c version 0.99G driver (and earlier, no doubt), which
can (and did!) result Oopses within the interrupt processing.
Now that I have a patch for those Oopses, perhaps I can have
a look at the Tx timeouts (not that I have any documentation
for the cards..) I do see those Tx timeouts at about 10-30
ppm of the packets I send. The weird part is that I see
them at a dedicated and hard configured full-duplex point-to-
point cat5 cross-over 100BaseTx cable in between two 3c905B
cards. The transmitter is hammering at a bit over 5000 packets
per second all day in and out for days... (A ping-responder
to a 'ping -f -s 128')
Of course, Win* boxed never indicate that they have any problems
with the cards, while Linux drivers do indicate those...
> -- n i c h o l a s j l e o n
> / not all questions have answers / mailto:nicholas@binary9.net
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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