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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:26:03PM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote:
> FYI - tried generating lots of extra tx traffic... found a way to
> generate the rx status messages on demand:
> ping -i .0000001 -s 8000 -t 2 <host> >/dev/null
>
> Yields:
> Jan 31 23:08:07 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x1f6a0010
> length 1518
...
> Jan 31 23:08:12 mail kernel: net_ratelimit: 316 callbacks suppressed
> etc.
...
> Understanding that the other side is out of spec, I'd still wonder why
> the sky2 driver generates rx errors. Perhaps overruns should be tossed
> silently... by the hardware if possible.

Of course it's a matter of taste, but it seems such errors shouldn't
be tolerated in a local network. I'd rather prefer doing them more
explicit (like e.g. some other kind of length errors).

Jarek P.


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