Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: "Bus master arbitration failure" | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:51:20 +0000 (GMT) |
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> networks. On one network I have 2 machines each of which is sending > data to 1 machine on the other network (by TCP) as fast as they can > send. > > In doing so the kernel is spitting out the following message about > once per second: > > kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2. > > > The ethernet card involved is an AT1700(?) - using the lance driver. > There are 3 such cards in this machine. > > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who would know what these messages > mean. I can provide more detailed information on request if these > messages represent a problem.
It means your cards are dropping a few packets because the bus arbitration is taking too long - probably because the other cards are hogging the bus.
They just represent dropped packets
Alan
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