I am using FreeBSD4.8-RELEASE with a D-Link DFE-580 4-port FastEthernet NIC
(ste driver). I seem to have problems with packet losses despite the system
is far from being fully loaded. I have found the following comment in the
CVS repository of if_ste.c (Revision 1.33):
"This card still has seeming
< I don't think you ran out of mbufs (you would have noticed) so that
> rules out case #1. Checking cases #2 and #3 requires adding a little
> instrumentation to the driver. If the XL_RXSTAT_UP_ERROR bit is being
> detected in xl_rxeof(), you can print out the status word and see
> if any of the fo