From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 2 06:06:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15864 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:06:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from octopus.originative.co.uk (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15839; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:06:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: by OCTOPUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 14:05:01 -0000 Message-ID: From: Paul Richards To: "'Luigi Rizzo'" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa if_lnc.c Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 14:05:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > -----Original Message----- > From: Luigi Rizzo [mailto:luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it] > Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 4:19 PM > To: paul@originative.co.uk > Cc: luigi@FreeBSD.ORG; cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG; cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa if_lnc.c > > > > 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. The Lance will not pass up runt packets, it drops them at the hardware level. The driver has no knowledge of them at all. I think the PCnet family counts runt packets in the receive collision counter register but the current driver doesn't use this PCnet specific register. Paul Richards Ph.D. Originative Solutions Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message