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Re: BOCA PCI Ethernet (LONG)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Platt)
Tue Mar 14 20:25:21 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:46:57 PST
From: dplatt@3do.com (Dave Platt)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I have some further interesting information concerning the Boca BEN1PI
Ethernet card's apparent sensitivity to data.
I found a Linux file (/usr/bin/gawk) which seems to be "poison" for this card.
If I try doing a binary FTP of this file from a Sun to Linux, the FTP
connection will lock up and ifconfig will report RX ERRs. If I tar this
file to a remote tape drive (on a different Sun) and then try to "tar tvf"
the tape via rmt, the tar command locks up.
If I shut down Linux, boot up DOS, install the Boca-supplied packet driver
for this card, fire up PC/TCP, and try to do a binary FTP of the file from
my Sun, the FTP transfer locks up.
In all of these lockups, the "ifconfig" command on the Sun involved in the
transfer shows a substantial amount of data sitting in the TCP buffers,
ready to be sent. The connection never completes.
I think the card's at fault. I'm going to work up a bug report and fax it
to Boca, and request an RMA to have the card exchanged.
I'll let y'all know if I get any additional information.
