Re: NetBSD 5.0.1 Networking Message

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:38:59PM -0400, Erik Winkler wrote:
> I am still getting the "transmit underrun" errors plus the following  
> as well:
> 
> /netbsd: ex1:  transmit underrun (9000) @20, new threshold is 40
> /netbsd: ex1:  transmit underrun (9000) @40
> /netbsd: ex1:  transmit underrun (9000) @40
> /netbsd: ex1:  transmit underrun (9000) @40, new threshold is 60

So the threshold correction code is working.

> 
> Seems strange since the system has a 1 Ghz CPU and 768 MB of RAM.  I  
> never had this error with NetBSD 3.0 and it has only just appeared  
> with NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0.

Maybe because the device was always in store-and-forward mode before

> Any ideas where to look in the kernel code?

sys/dev/ic/elinkxl.c

But these errors are harmless, they're informationnal only.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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