Re: via-rhine nic crazyness on PIII Xeon SMP running 2.2.5 - 2.2.11

Jason Gunthorpe (jgg@ualberta.ca)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:48:11 -0600 (MDT)


On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Matthew wrote:

> eth0 and eth1 behave properly, but eth2 (the via-rhine) spits out "Something
> Wicked has happened" into the syslog. I turned on verbose mode and captured
> about 20k of data, including three instances of the "Wickedness". I looked
> through docs and the source (via-rhine.c) and couldn't find any mention of
> failure due to multiple nics or SMP.

I see this as well on my machine with dual via-rhine (dlink) cards. One
card doesn't even have a cable pluggined in however.

via-rhine.c:v1.00 9/5/98 Written by Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html
via-rhine.c:v1.00 9/5/98 Written by Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html
eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0x7f80, 00:80:c8:e1:69:fb, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 0000.
eth1: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0x7f00, 00:80:c8:e2:ce:89, IRQ 10.
eth1: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x7809 advertising 05e1 Link 0000.

eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame c009b010 vs c009b010.
eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x1f04c
length 0 status 0600!
eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame c009b0c0 vs c009b0c0.
eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.
eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.
eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.
eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.
eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.
eth0: Something Wicked happened! 2008.
eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x39898
length 0 status 0600!
eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame c009b080 vs c009b080.
eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x3989b
length 0 status 0600!

My network here is very noisy, but non of the other linux boxes with
tulips or ne2k's print anything at all like this. The kernel is 2.2.9

This machine is totally idle, I can futz with it however.

Jason

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