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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: SMC Elite Combo dropping IP packets with recompiled kernel?
Date: 1 Feb 1994 20:43:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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In <HSU.94Jan28184220@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) writes:
>SMC Elite Combo drops IP packets (something like 50% loss, particularly
>with large packets) with recompiled kernel (GENERIC), but kernel in the
>distribution works fine.  The symptoms seem SMC card related, as this
>appears in two different systems (16MHz very-old-386-PC-ega and
>66MHz-AMD-opti-hercules).  NetBSD 0.9.

Netbsd 0.9 with a SMC; no problems of dropped packets.  Our kernel is
totally recompiled for our system though.

netstat -id
Name  Mtu   Network     Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll Drop
ed0   1500  <Link>      0.0.c0.b7.ea.2c   112503     0   117944     0    15   0
ed0   1500  resort-net  atrium            112503     0   117944     0    15   0

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