Subject: Re: noisy le driver...
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@CS.ORST.EDU>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-hp300
Date: 12/03/1994 22:48:04
> Just to clarify...
> 
> le0: FRAM
> le0: CRC
> le0: FRAM
> le0: CRC
> le0: FRAM
> le0: CRC
> le0: FRAM
> le0: CRC
> le0: FRAM
> le0: CRC
> 
> It takes several hours to generate a list like that...That's on a machine 
> that's been up for ~1 wk.

yah.  actually, thinking about it, charles's diagnosis that these are
conditions that shouldn't be ignored is probably right.

> Also, when Charles referred to `transmission 
> errors', I'm assuming he meant on another host, as these messages are 
> generated inside of lerint().

right.  they're packet CRC or framing errors that the lance sees on
its input.  a packet would have to be mangled by the network hardware
for one of these errors to show up...



chris