NIC card problems....

[Peter Jeremy]

On Mon, 2005-Jan-24 00:27:38 +0100, Stefan Eßer wrote:
>The TX threshold messages issued by the dc driver appear more as an
>indication that the PCI bus is under severe load, than as a hint that
>the dc driver is causing the reboots, IMHO.

Under Tru64, I've seen Tulip cards report backoff to 1024 byte FIFO and
then switching to store-and-forward.  That's about 100µsec latency and
nothing should be holding the PCI bus that long.  I am inclined to
believe that something is stuffed in the PCI interface logic in the NIC.

-- 
Peter Jeremy