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<<On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:21:59 -0700 (PDT), wpaul@freebsd.org (Bill Paul) said:

> I don't think you ran out of mbufs (you would have noticed) so that
> rules out case #1. Checking cases #2 and #3 requires adding a little
> instrumentation to the driver. If the XL_RXSTAT_UP_ERROR bit is being
> detected in xl_rxeof(), you can print out the status word and see
> if any of the following bits are also set:

> #define XL_RXSTAT_UP_OVERRUN    0x00010000
> #define XL_RXSTAT_RUNT          0x00020000
[...]

I would like to see more drivers fully implement the dot3 interface
MIB.  Very few of them do, at present, which is Most Unfortunate.
It's really very simple to do when you have a card that actually makes
it available to you as easily as this one.

-GAWollman