Re: problem with IP addresses getting mangled - various NIC drivers and kernels

From: Andrey Savochkin (saw@saw.sw.com.sg)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 22:15:30 EST


Hello,

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:41:38PM -0800, PhilN wrote:
> I found the problem with this to be the eepro100 driver in 2.2.12-20 and
> 2.2.14. Thanks to Dave Higgens at VALinux for pointing me to potential
> problems with the eepro100 driver. I downloaded Andrey V. Savochkin's
> driver, installed it and all my problems miraculously went away.
> Interestingly, I was sent off-track by the fact that when the eepro100
> misbehaved the 3c575_cb driver responded in kind....

That's great that you've solved your problem.
However, I can't easily explain the disappearence of data mangling problems
by the introduced modification.
Is it only IP address that get mangled? What about the payload?
Did you see kernel reports about bad checksums?

Best regards
                                        Andrey V.
                                        Savochkin

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