[1354] in Athena Bugs
rt garbage-packets at power-up time.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (don@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Nov 10 20:29:24 1988
From: <don@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 88 20:28:37 EST
To: rt-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
i must confess that the fix i reported last week was bogus.
it worked, at best, only intermittently.
in fact, i only saw it work once (blush).
for three days now, i've been testing a more robust fix.
unzap() no longer delays to allow the loopback garbage-transmission
to complete. instead, unzap() initializes the adapter's output-buffer's length
to 1, so that the loopback-xmit finishes before unzap() returns. i've
tested this through 8 netwatch'ed power cycles, and left the kernel running
for 2 days. -don
