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reset command. I observed some anomalous behavior while testing a 3c905C with a Dell PowerEdge 4300/500 dual PIII 500Mhz system. The NIC would seem to work correctly most of the time but would sometimes fail to receive certain packets, in particular NFS create requests. I could mount an NFS filesystem from the PowerEdge and do an ls on it, but trying to do a "touch foo" would hang. Monitoring traffic from another host revealed that the client was properly sending an NFS create request but the server was not receiving it. It *did* receive it when I ran the same test with an Intel fxp card. I don't understand the exact mechanics of this strange behavior, but resetting the receiver and transmitter seems to get rid of it. I used to perform an RX and TX reset in xl_init(), but stopped doing it there because on 3c905B and later cards this causes the autoneg session to restart, which would lead to the NIC waiting a long time before exchanging traffic after being brought up the first time. Apparently the receiver and transmitter resets should be performed at least once when initializing the card. Hopefully this will cure problems that people have been having with the 3c905C -- this was the only strange behavior that I have observed with the 3c905C so far which does not appear with the 3c905B or 3c905. |
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