Hawkeye King wrote: > Hello, > > The following message is appearing in my logs when running RTNet with > the rt_tulip driver: > > rteth0: Error detected, device may not work any more! > > Is this something I should be worried about?
If this happens only once right after startup: no, it's harmless. I just noticed it yesterday again in a perfectly working network. Anyway, we should avoid the startup warning to avoid confusion. > > Everything works just fine, I'm just getting this message over and over. > The NIC is connected to a shared Ethernet segment, where other non-rt > traffic is also occurring. Could this message be related to the > "unknown layer-3 protocol" message that I've seen before? That's indeed related. The NIC uses a limited pool of buffers to receive packets. The pool is designed to handle deterministic traffic of internal service or real-time application. But it can starve in case a normal network with unknown and unpredictable traffic is attached. Jan
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