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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2:  receive dma mapping error handling
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On 1/31/2010 5:25 PM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:17:41PM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote:
>    
>> On 01/30/2010 07:34 PM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:31:48AM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Jan 29 17:13:11 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x6230010
>>>> length 1518
>>>> Jan 29 17:13:11 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x7f40010
>>>> length 1518
>>>>          
>>> These are length errors, but status shows more than 1518, e.g. 2036
>>> here, unless I miss something. Please, don't use jumbo frames in your
>>> network until we fully debug it for regular frames (Stephen admitted
>>> sky2 jumbo might be broken).
>>>        
>> MTU was 1500 - not using jumbo frames as they don't work.
>>      
> Do you mean no NIC in your network could have sent such frames?
>
> Jarek P.
>    
Well... There's only one possible source... and if there were it would 
have been a Win7 bug :) Regardless, sky2 shouldn't be sensitive to rogue 
external network stuff.