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On Wed, April 13, 2005 2:08 am, Andy Fawcett said:

>> xl1: transmission error: 90
>> xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold
>> to 120 bytes
>
> FWIW, I see these on my firewall box with a pair of xl cards, even
> without the polling patch. They've been showing up on and off since about
> 5.3-RELEASE,
> and usually only during the first day after a reboot.

I get these too, on a 3Com 3c905C-TX. I have gotten these for ages, so its
nothing new. Either the driver is really screwed up, or these cards come
with defaults that are too low.