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1.2.6 and ne2000 driver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Root)
Tue Apr 25 03:28:39 1995
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 01:37:30 -0400
From: Dan Root <refugee@ghost.pc.cc.cmu.edu>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Hello all.
I just installed the 1.2.6 kernel last night and I'm getting
some real weirdness from my ne2000 clone. I'm getting quite a number
of messages that look like this:
Apr 25 00:36:48 ghost linux: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x01
Apr 25 00:37:13 ghost linux: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x40
Even one or two net active connects can cause a message like this (a
hit on my httpd while I'm reading news almost always seems to do it)
The status 0x40 occur more frequently, on about a 5:2 ratio. The
other thing is that netstat -i shows:
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flags
lo 2000 0 0 0 0 0 768 0 0 0 BLRU
eth0 1500 0 136856 0 0 0 13043 0 0 0 BRU
which seems to be a rather high number of received packets for a
machine that's only been up for an hour. I'm fairly certain it's just
my machine and not the local net since my roommate (running 1.2.3 on a
different card) shows about ~14 Million RX-OK and ~6 Million TX-OK
after 26 DAYS of uptime with about 5-6 active users. At this rate
I'll reach that level of activity in well under a week on machine with
only 1 or 2 active users at a time.
Is it possible that the card is somehow being set into
promiscuous/multicast mode for some reason? Anyone have any ideas
what I can do to fix/work around this?
Thanks for any help
Dan
Some other possibly relavant info:
'cat /proc/interrupts' right after the above netstat shows
0: 633435 timer
1: 17335 keyboard
2: 0 + cascade
4: 2944 + serial
11: 103226 ne
13: 0 math error
14: 12922 + ide0
parts of dmesg:
Console: colour EGA+ 100x40, 1 virtual console (max 63)
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 33.22 BogoMips
Serial driver version 4.11 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
snd3 <Pro AudioSpectrum 16 rev 0> at 0x388 irq 10 drq 3
hda: WDC AC2420H, 405MB w/128KB Cache, CHS=989/15/56, MaxMult=16
hdb: WDC AC2250, 243MB w/63KB Cache, CHS=989/9/56, MaxMult=16
ide0: primary interface on irq 14
...
Memory: 19252k/20480k available (556k kernel code, 384k reserved, 288k data)
This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
...
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: 00 40 95 26 bc d8
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x340, using IRQ 11.
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
...
Linux version 1.2.6 (root@ghost) (gcc version 2.5.8) #1 Sun Apr 23 22:44:18 EDT 1995
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