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Re: 3c509
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Vink)
Wed Jul 5 10:30:55 1995
From: Andre Vink <a.m.vink@eco.hen.nl>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 95 11:22:47 +0100
To: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> > 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
Stil it's a bit strange because it's a 120Mhz Pentium with 64Mb
intern memory so it's fat enough.
Andre.
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