Messages in this thread | | 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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