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Date:      17 Jul 1998 10:01:09 +0200
From:      smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        HAMADA Naoki <hamada@astec.co.jp>, sbabkin@dcn.att.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIC drivers
Message-ID:  <rx4lnps9a9m.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:21:14 -0700
References:  <199807162021.NAA03930@antipodes.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes:
> If anyone has the chance to test this under -stable in the next few 
> days, please do so, as it'd be nice to have it in 2.2.7.

Well, I don't have a -stable box right now, but from preliminary
testing on my -current boxes, I'd recommend against it. I haven't had
much time to track down the problem, but it would seem that a certain
percentage of incoming packets go down a black hole.

> > I carefully looked through the source code to find a bug which results
> > mbuf leaks. Could you try this patch?
> > 
> > -nao
> > 
> > --- sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c-	Wed Jul 15 15:40:09 1998
> > +++ sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c	Wed Jul 15 15:41:04 1998
> > @@ -1128,8 +1128,7 @@
> >  	    /* we see if by now, the packet has completly arrived */
> >  	    goto read_again;
> >  	}
> > -	outw(BASE + EP_COMMAND, SET_RX_EARLY_THRESH | RX_NEXT_EARLY_THRESH);
> > -	return;
> > +	goto out;
> >      }
> >      outw(BASE + EP_COMMAND, RX_DISCARD_TOP_PACK);
> >      ++ifp->if_ipackets;
> > 

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com

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