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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 09:28:45 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, rock@dead-end.net
Subject: Re: RealTek 8139 problems
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>Under normal Circumstances, the communication is Ok between all three
>machines, but sometimes the ethernet interface in the main machine
>(the 8139) wedges up. I cannot ping any other host. The only solution
>is taking the interface down and up again:

It hangs when it gets an rx fifo overrun.  The chance of an overrun can
be modified by tweaking the fifo threshold and rx maxdma as in if_rlreg.h
rev.1.9.

Bruce


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