Re: e100 driver

["David Gómez" <david@pleyades.net>]

Hi Hugo,

On May 19 at 10:33:18, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > <31>May 19 09:05:42 kernel: hw tcp v4 csum failed
> > <31>May 19 09:11:11 kernel: icmp v4 hw csum failure
> 
>    I get this, too, on two recently-purchased machines. I suspect that
> the new revs of the chips are the cause -- my kernel doesn't seem to
> know about many of the device IDs on this board:

Not in my case :(, i'm using a not very recent intel ethernet card:

00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)

>    Other than the odd csum failures (average of 1-2 a day on each
> box), it all seems to work perfectly.

I was getting a lot more, look:

[huma@fargo] [~] % grep csum /var/log/messages|grep "May 19"| wc -l
    443
[huma@fargo] [~] % grep csum /var/log/messages|grep "May 18"| wc -l
    486
[huma@fargo] [~] % grep csum /var/log/messages|grep "May 17"| wc -l
    425
[huma@fargo] [~] % grep csum /var/log/messages|grep "May 16"| wc -l
    953
[huma@fargo] [~] % grep csum /var/log/messages|grep "May 15"| wc -l
   1023
[huma@fargo] [~] % grep csum /var/log/messages|grep "May 14"| wc -l
    911

I've been a long time without noticing this problem, but looking casually
for another reason at the logs get me to finding these checksum errors hell ;))


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