Re: via rhine bug? (timeouts and resets)

[Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:51:09 +0100, Henrik Persson wrote:
> RL> The patch attached below will definitely solve some of the problems
> RL> you're seeing (e.g. "excessive collisions" on a switch). Feedback
> 
> Well.. It didn't solve my problems.. Still the same errors.. :/

That I find hard to believe. You were seeing a combination of "MII status
changed" and "Abort 0208, frame dropped.". That's because the driver makes
two mistakes: It treats 0200 as a link change (first message), and it
thinks 0008 indicates excessive collisions (second message).

In fact, 0008 means "transmission error", and 0200 specifies a buffer
underrun. The patch fixes that (lines 204, 213). If you are seeing the
_same_ errors my guess is you're still running the old driver. Check the
log at debug=3.

> RL> You shouldn't need to force full duplex, btw.
> 
> Nah, that was "just in case".. ;)

It's masking another bug that's waiting to hit you <g>.

Roger