Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:40:58 +0200 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | network (tulip?) problem with pre-2.0.31-X |
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using both the tulip-0.76 and DaveM's pre-2.0.31-2 and now tulip-0.78 and Linus' pre-2.0.31-4 we get the following messages from time to time
Aug 12 19:31:25 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:25 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 063c81a2! Aug 12 19:31:26 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:26 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 06ab81a6! Aug 12 19:31:28 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:28 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 0988c1b2! Aug 12 19:31:32 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:32 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 062e81a2! Aug 12 19:31:44 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:44 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 064781a6! Aug 12 19:31:45 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:45 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 063781a2! Aug 12 19:31:45 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:45 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 061781a2! Aug 12 19:31:48 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:48 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 099dc1b2! Aug 12 19:31:50 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:50 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 0888c1b2! Aug 12 19:31:58 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:31:58 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 08e2c1b6! Aug 12 19:32:01 alamak kernel: NFS server ceres not responding, still trying. Aug 12 19:32:02 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! Aug 12 19:32:02 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 060281a6! Aug 12 19:32:03 alamak kernel: NFS server ceres OK.
when receiving much and fast data via 100Mbit ethernet from a Linux PC to Linux dual-PPro200 SMP (haven't tried yet if receiving with UP kernel would fix this).
any idea about the reason ? what should be checked/tried/tested ?
thanks,
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