Re: Problem with ncpfs since 2.3.49. Maybe networking?

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 00:45:59 EST


On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:57:29PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 16 Mar 00 at 12:49, David S. Miller wrote:
> > But 'ping -f' does not reveal any problems. I can try to recompile
> > kernel without IP multicasting and filtering, if it can cause these
> > troubles.
> > When doing such tests try specifying different packet size values to
> > ping, up to the MTU of the interface. Next you can try looking for
> > packet drop anomalies based upon lmbench's bw_tcp run results.
> I already found it. New entry in tulip/eeprom.c caused tulip to switch
> on my halfduplex 10BaseT to fullduplex. After I removed "NetWinder"
> entry from tulip/eeprom.c it works again without any glitch. And as
> I do not understand these entries, I left it to Jeff Garzik to resolve
> it.

Netwinder is a Linux/ARM target. As such, I imagine the changes were
filtered through Russell at some point. Any comments, rmk?

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