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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
