Oversized ethernet problems

[P.A.M. van Dam (Pascal)]

On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:29:06PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> What type of machine do you have?

AMD K6/II 300Mhz not overclocked.
EPOX MVP3 Mobo PCI/AGP

> 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'.

Neither 2 nor 1 does solve the problem.

Best regards,

	Pascal
> 
> Donald Becker
> Scyld Computing Corporation, and
> USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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