[466] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Resnet causes net card transmit timeouts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 21 16:36:40 1994
From: nocturne@MIT.EDU
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: resnet-help@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 21 Feb 94 15:32:19 -0500.
<9402212032.AA22727@pesto.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 16:36:08 EST
> With the 3Com 3C509 under Linux, the following error is generated
> during large transmissions:
> Feb 21 14:35:57 foundation kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status 2000.
> From this, it sounds like the problem might be a timing problem
> with how the dorm networks are configured. Is there anything
> you know of that might be causing this problem?
I also observe this problem from time to time, from Epsilon Theta's
subnet. ... so it's not necessarily something about the dorms.
I was noticing it most often when I had my machine hooked up directly through a
thinnet-to-AUI tranceiver to the repeater that MIT has given/loaned us....
- Eric
