Re: 1.3.95: reset did not complete at ei_rx_overrun

Paul Gortmaker (gpg109@rsphy6.anu.edu.au)
Sun, 28 Apr 1996 20:20:04 +1000 (EST)


Ronald Wahl (Ronald.Wahl@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 11:18:47 +0200 (MET DST)

> Just got this message seven times with 1.3.95:
>
> eth0: reset did not complete at ei_rx_overrun
>
>
> What's this? - A bug?

It means that you are using an 8390 based card that is suffering a
large number of overruns. When an overrun happens, the 8390 is reset.
Sometimes when the card is really being swamped, the 8390 decides not
to ACK that the reset has completed.

The real question is what are you doing to generate this much Rx traffic
directed at your card? One other person here recently had the same
problem, and found that he was doing something inadvertently that was
enabling promisc. mode, thus explaining the huge Rx traffic load.

Paul.