Re: Re[4]: 2.4.9 UDP broke?

[volodya@mindspring.com]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jeremiah Johnson wrote:

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> Hello volodya,
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> I found the answer to the problem today.  It has to do with a bug in
> one of these options:
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> CONFIG_TULIP_MWI
> CONFIG_TULIP_MMIO
> 

You are absolutely correct - once I enabled both of these it works
great. My guess is that whoever tested the patches was concentrated on the
case when options were enabled.

                               Vladimir Dergachev

> Since the system is a older dual p100 I didn't really want to sit
> through the 2 hours of compilation to "test" which one it is.  I'm
> willing to bet its CONFIG_TULIP_MWI though since its still marked as
> experimental.  With both of these options disabled 2.4.9 works fine on
> that system though as it does on my other boxes.  Whoever maintains
> the code for those two config options might want to do some testing.
> I can provide more information about the system if needed.
> 
> Sunday, September 02, 2001, 7:25:44 PM, you wrote:
> 
> vmc> I had a very similar experience. In my case it turned out that for some
> vmc> reason no UDP packets above 5524 would not come through (try pinging with
> vmc> larger than default packet sizes). The solution was to restrict NFS to
> vmc> 5000 (actually 4096) size packets. I have not been able to figure out the
> vmc> cause of this yet. (and yes, tcpdump was able to see them fine).
> 
> vmc>                             Vladimir Dergachev
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> 
> - --
> Best regards,
>  Jeremiah                            mailto:miah@netcis.com
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