Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:27:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> To: kpanic@00t.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xl0: transmission error: 90 Message-ID: <1193.172.16.0.199.1113568033.squirrel@172.16.0.1> In-Reply-To: <425F859D.1040101@00t.org> References: <425F859D.1040101@00t.org>
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On Fri, April 15, 2005 5:13 am, Ulrik Guenther said: > on my 5.4-RC1 installation with a 3com 3c905B NIC I got the following > messages while transferring a big file (31GByte) over 100MBit ethernet: > > Apr 15 08:46:18 verleihnix kernel: xl0: transmission error: 90 > Apr 15 08:46:18 verleihnix kernel: xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start > > So, okay the threshold was increaed in 60byte steps from 120 to 420 > bytes, then it stopped. This procedure took place only during the first > gigabytes of the transmission. I noticed no negative side effects (say: > the file arrived completely on the other computer, checksum was okay as > well). Transmission was done via SSH/SCP. > > Now my question: What do these messages from the xl(4) mean? Im assuming the xl cards default tx buffer is too low, or something of that nature. I get the same messages, but everything works fine.
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