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To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: ethernet card incompatibilities? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jun 1997 12:13:22 +0200."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 03:39:38 -0700
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>I've got a network with bothe an old 8 bit smc 8003 card
>on it and a Digital DC21041 on it.

   If it's an 8003, then it's a Western Digital, not an SMC, right?

>When I have data transfers going on from the DEC card to the SMC card,
>I am seeing input errors on the SMC card. Is this a known incompatibility?
>The erros are not all equal. I'm seeing :  81, 86, a1, 21 and 1 
>(see if_edreg.h at 'Receiver Status Register (RSR) definitions'
>for an explanation of these errors).

   Hmmm. This sounds like a cabling problem like a crushed ethernet coax
cable or something - especially since you're seeing CRC and frame alignment
errors.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project