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Date:      Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:01:08 -0800
From:      Robert Luce <rwl@gymnet.com>
To:        Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMC EtherPower card + CRC errors
Message-ID:  <1625.971102@gymnet.com>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.971102154419.6987D-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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I'm seeing very similar problems, also with an SMC card (de0).

Nov  2 11:12:08 flex /kernel: de0: receive: 00:a0:24:80:09:33: bad crc

I'm also seeing many more of the following since cvsupping FreeBSD
2.2.5-STABLE:

Nov  2 11:24:25 flex /kernel: Out of mbuf clusters - increase maxusers!

> I recently upgraded one of my server machines from FreeBSD 2.2.1 (with a
> 2.2.2 kernel and a few other patches.)  The card holds an SMC EtherPower
> card described by dmesg as the following:

> FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE #0: Sat Nov  1 14:32:43 EST 1997
>     robert@cyrus.watson.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/FLEDGE
> CPU: Pentium (119.75-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x525  Stepping=5
>   Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
> real memory  = 100663296 (98304K bytes)
> ...
> de0 <Digital 21041 Ethernet> rev 33 int a irq 9 on pci0:14
> de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 2.1
> de0: address 00:e0:29:0e:b6:dd
> de0: enabling 10baseT port

> Since the upgrade, we've been getting a fair number of the following
> message:

> de0: receive: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: bad crc
> de0: receive: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: bad crc
> de0: receive: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: bad crc
> de0: receive: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: bad crc
> de0: receive: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: bad crc
> de0: receive: 00:60:97:61:ba:39: bad crc
> de0: receive: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: bad crc
> de0: receive: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: bad crc

> Mostly on the broadcast address.  None of the other BSD machines on the
> network are giving this error.  While it's possible that the card has
> gone
> bad, the timeliness of the new error with regards to the stable upgrade
> is
> convenient :).  Does anyone have a pointers, or suggestions as to a
> cause?
> I have not been following changes to the de driver.


>   Robert N Watson 

> Junior, Logic+Computation, Carnegie Mellon University 
> http://www.cmu.edu/
> Network Administrator, SafePort Network Services 
> http://www.safeport.com/
> robert@fledge.watson.org rwatson@safeport.com
> http://www.watson.org/~robert/


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