Oversized ethernet problems

Martin Ehmke ehmke@technologist.com
Tue Oct 19 11:23:00 1999


On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:29:06PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> > Alas, the v1.08r version doesn't solve the problem. Still frame overflows.
> 
> What type of machine do you have?
> The frame overflows are likely a result of PCI bus errors during transfers,
> e.g. most '486 machines have a problem with PCI bursts.
> 
> You can try changing the RX_DMA_BURST setting to something smaller, perhaps
> to '1' or '2'.
> 
Hi,
I have tried changing it, but it didn't solve the problem on my machine.

	Martin

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