Transmit timed out error?

Mario Camou mcamou@workmail.com
Fri Dec 18 12:01:47 1998


Well, I did it, set the filter limit to 0 (I really need to run atalkd...my Mac
users would kill me if not!) but I'm still getting the error...

Any other ideas?

-Mario.

Glenn wrote:

> I've been running afpd WITHOUT atalkd with the additional line in my
> conf.modules: options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3
> on 2.0.36 with eepro driver 1.05 with good results -- or rather,
> without more than one ethernet driver hickup in the last month.  The
> machine is lightly loaded, and is on a 100 MB switched ethernet segment.
>
> Someone had suggested setting the filter limit to 0 and running atalkd,
> but I haven't tried that; I've been content with only running afpd over
> TCP/IP (AFP over TCP), without the Appletalk DDP even compiled into the
> kernel.  (Not running atalkd just means that server doesn't show up in
> Chooser, but can still be accessed via server IP address)
>
> Glenn Strauss
> Brown University
> <gs@brown.edu>
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Mario Camou wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a server with Kernel 2.0.36 and of course an EtherExpress Pro 100. I'm
> > > getting the following:
> > >
> > > eth0: Transmit timed out: status 8090 command 00
> > >
> > > and the same but with status 0090.
> > >
> > > This is happening when the machine is idle (no users), practically every
> > > evening.
> > >
> > > Any ideas what might be wrong?
> > >
> > > Please CC: me in all replies, as I don't subscribe to this list.
> >
> > are you running atalkd?  That will cause this problem... turn it off.  Or
> > configure your driver correctly to deal with appletalk DDP.. I don't know
> > how..
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Scott M. Stone <sstone@pht.com, sstone@pht.co.jp>
> > Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
> > Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)
> >
> >
> >