RE: problems with e1000 and flow control

2008-02-26 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
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 indeed

Re: problems with e1000 and flow control

2008-02-26 Thread Kok, Auke
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 hosts

Re: problems with e1000 and flow control

2008-02-26 Thread Kok, Auke
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 think

problems with e1000 and flow control

2008-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Walter
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

Re: Problems with e1000 and flow control

2005-07-25 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
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

Re: Problems with e1000 and flow control

2005-07-19 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
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 ports

Re: Problems with e1000 and flow control

2005-07-19 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
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 NFS is