Hello, Did anyone make progress in the case of the VIA Rhine ethernet bug?
It gives messages like: Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x9 length 0 status 00000600! Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame cca77090 vs cca77090. Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0xa length 0 status 00000400! Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame cca770a0 vs cca770a0. [....] Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x7 length 0 status 00000400! Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame cca77070 vs cca77070. Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x8 length 24436 status 5f748d10! Apr 8 18:51:08 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame cca77080 vs cca77080. Most of the time the ethernet connection is gone and needs and ifconfig down/up or reboot to make it work again. I see this error on a VIA EPIA CL-6000 board. Using google I see the mentionings of the error messages in relation to VIA Rhine go back to 1999. The other side of eth1 is an Alcatel Speedtouch Home. With different firewall hardware (Tulip DT5/xxx but same Alcatel) I did not see the errors. Any ideas? A patch to gather more info so the bug can be fixed? Etc? Please post! Info: eth0: VIA Rhine III at 0x1d000, 00:40:63:d6:xx:xx, IRQ 11. eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0x1e800, 00:40:63:d6:xx:xx, IRQ 9. Linux epia 2.6.11-rc1-mm2 #2 Sat Jan 22 10:51:45 CET 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 8b) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 5739616 XT-PIC timer 1: 78 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 12 XT-PIC serial 4: 12 XT-PIC serial 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 804990 XT-PIC VIA8233, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth1 11: 493428 XT-PIC HiSax, ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, eth0 12: 512 XT-PIC i8042 14: 453632 XT-PIC ide0 15: 50784 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 1 (the ERR value has a relation to the bug? I just rebooted the box and the error occurred once...) # ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 10Mb/s Duplex: Half Port: MII PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00000001 (1) Link detected: yes Kind regards, Udo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/