On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:43:33PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Hello, > > On my firewall (VIA EPIA CL-6000 with VIA Rhine network chips running FC3 > and custom kernels) I see messages like: > > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers, entry 0x4 length 0 status 00000600! > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame ccf80040 vs > ccf80040. > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers, entry 0x5 length 0 status 00000400! > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame ccf80050 vs > ccf80050. > > [...] > > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers, entry 0xf length 0 status 00000400! > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame ccf800f0 vs > ccf800f0. > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers, entry 0x0 length 0 status 00000400! > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame ccf80000 vs > ccf80000. > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers, entry 0x1 length 0 status 00000400! > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame ccf80010 vs > ccf80010. > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers, entry 0x2 length 0 status 00000400! > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame ccf80020 vs > ccf80020. > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers, entry 0x3 length 0 status 00000581! > Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame ccf80030 vs > ccf80030. > > every 3 or 4 days or so when I really use the card. (please notice all 16 > entries are used and the length is 0) > Eth1 is connected to an Alcatel Speedtouch Home at 10 Mbits, Half Duplex. > This problem did not occur when I wsa using other hardware for the firewall. > > While googlin' I saw that this is an old bug which was not fixed for years. > I am in contact with the maintainer and currently am trying to see what > effect a smaller mtu and/or older driver versions might have. > > Because of the impact of this nasty bug (many users have these chips in > their hardware) I would like to ask if others could have a look into this > problem as well. Please email me your experiences (2.6.x kernel? Same bug or > no problem? Fixes? Etc). > PLEASE help!
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