Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262261AbVAOLnl (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:43:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262264AbVAOLnl (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:43:41 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.31]:43531 "EHLO smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262261AbVAOLni convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:43:38 -0500 From: "Udo van den Heuvel" To: Subject: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:43:33 +0100 Message-ID: <001001c4faf7$71a26230$450aa8c0@hierzo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: High Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2556 Lines: 61 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! Thanks, Udo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/