Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> Wolfgang Walter wrote:
>> it seems that e1000 enables flow-control (rx pause frames) even if
>> the switch does not advertise flow control. This seems to get a
>> problem as (at least some) switches then forward pause frames
>> directed to the card from other hosts. We th
Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> it seems that e1000 enables flow-control (rx pause frames) even if the switch
> does not advertise flow control. This seems to get a problem as (at least
> some) switches then forward pause frames directed to the card from other
> hosts. We think there are ho
Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> it seems that e1000 enables flow-control (rx pause frames) even if
> the switch does not advertise flow control. This seems to get a
> problem as (at least some) switches then forward pause frames
> directed to the card from other hosts. We think there are hosts which
> ind
Hello,
it seems that e1000 enables flow-control (rx pause frames) even if the switch
does not advertise flow control. This seems to get a problem as (at least
some) switches then forward pause frames directed to the card from other
hosts. We think there are hosts which indeed do this in the lan
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
mii-tool -v eth0:
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
product info: vendor 00:50:43, model 2 rev 3
basic mode: autonegotiation enabled
basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD
> "JB" == Jesse Brandeburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JB> Flow control should be supported, but it is autonegotiated at link
JB> time. How do you know it isn't on?
Thanks for the response. I'm going on two pieces of information:
1) The switch indicates that flow control is not on
2) UDP N
On 7/19/05, Jason L Tibbitts III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble enabling flow control with the e1000 driver. I'm
> running Fedora Core 3 (currently a 2.6.11-ish kernel until the new one
> doesn't kill SMP machines). The e1000 driver is version
> 5.6.10.1-k2-NAPI. The Ethernet po
I'm having trouble enabling flow control with the e1000 driver. I'm
running Fedora Core 3 (currently a 2.6.11-ish kernel until the new one
doesn't kill SMP machines). The e1000 driver is version
5.6.10.1-k2-NAPI. The Ethernet ports are on the motherboard (a
SuperMicro X5DPE):
03:02.0 Ethernet c
