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Subject: Re: tx transmission errors with xl
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, fingers wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I saw a few months ago that if I got errors like these:
> 
> Jul 28 10:41:15 fingers /kernel: xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start
> threshold to 600 bytes
> Jul 28 10:41:15 fingers /kernel: xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start
> threshold to 600 bytes

  This is not an error.  The kernel is telling you that your system can't
keep up with the network card.

  There are many definitive answers to this question in the archive.


Tom
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