Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:18:42 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: paul@originative.co.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: luigi@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa if_lnc.c Message-ID: <199810301618.RAA10364@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D108791@OCTOPUS> from "Paul Richards" at Oct 30, 98 05:37:45 pm
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> Well this is 50% ok, you're right about the spelling mistake but > disabling the error message is a bad thing. > > The error messages you've disabled signify packet corruption resulting > in the packet being dropped (CRC and Framing errors), you'd really want > to know about that sort of thing happening. This is hardly verbose error > reporting! yep, sorry :( i realized that i also disabled counters only after hitting the return key. > Please reverse that part of the commit. If you're seeing so many of > these errors that they're annoying you then you should find the cause, > not disable the error message. actually: do you know if the LANCE is programmed to pass up runt packets etc. ? Because with a different (ne2000) card on the same network i do see frequent short pkts (4..8 bytes) presumably result of collisions, when using the card in promisc mode (bridge). I thought this was the cause of the same problem with the 'lnc' driver. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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