From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 2:41:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91F637B408 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:41:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id LAA28821; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:48:38 +0200 Message-ID: <3B4ACE23.9C0FFFCA@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:42:59 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ariel_rus@mail.ru Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: TX threshold References: <01071001340204.24344@omsk.mushinsky.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ariel_rus@mail.ru schrieb: > > My FreeBSD machine acts as a firewall with ipfw and natd for a Windows box > behind it. When users on the Windows box use their browsers extensively, I > get messages like > > dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold > dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold > dc0: watchdog timeout > dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold > dc0: TX underrun -- using store and forward mode > dc0: watchdog timeout > > (dc0 is the interface to the Windows box). > > What does this mean, and is there anything wrong that needs to be fixed? man 4 dc tells the whole story. It seems those are messages about the NIC adjusting to certain hardware conditions. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message