Re: networking, 1.3.91

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:36:11 +0100 (BST)


> shemp, etc... seinfeld is a P60, WD card. 1.3.91. I get strange delays
> in my windows on the other machines. My tcpdump says this:
>
> seinfeld:~$ tail /var/log/syslog
> Apr 23 09:37:41 seinfeld kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 7354,
> status=0x1 nxpg=0xc.
> Apr 23 09:37:59 seinfeld kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 8224
> status=0x20 nxpg=0x20.
> Apr 23 09:37:59 seinfeld kernel: eth0: next frame inconsistency, 0x20
> Apr 23 09:38:07 seinfeld kernel: eth0: bogus packet size: 7610,
>
> Any clues as to what's going on here?

Make sure your ISA bus is at 8MHz, you dont have the memory area shadowed
or cached by the BIOS and there is not a mix of 8bit and 16bit cards within
that 128K block of ISA bus memory space. If its ok then we need to look
further.

Alan