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Re: 3c509
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Jul 5 08:05:39 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: a.m.vink@eco.hen.nl (Andre Vink)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 08:37:41 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199507030907.LAA22118@MailServer.eco.hen.nl> from "Andre Vink" at Jul 4, 95 12:52:41 pm
> so i setup a linux server with kernel 1.2.10.
> The system works as it should, but keeps reporting the folowing message:
>
> Waiting for 3c509 to discard packets, status 2001
>
> Does anyone know why? I already switched the NIC.
> We have 7 linux systems running with a 3c509 but this is the first
> with these messages.
I see them regularly under heavy load on slow machines. The box concerned
has logged about 10,000 of them in 3 weeks but hasnt crashed yet so it seems
harmless enough.
Alan
