Netatalk/Appletalk Problems with eepro100

[Osma Ahvenlampi]

Simon Andrew Boggis <simon@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> Apr 15 17:52:36 MACHINE kernel: eth3: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0000 at 17015/17030 command 00000000. 
> Apr 15 17:52:36 MACHINE kernel: eth3: Trying to restart the transmitter... 
> 
> There has been a lot of discussion on the netatalk-admins list concerning this,
> which I have been following, and the conclusion there was that the hardware
> was broken, but could be worked around by setting multicast_filter_limit=3.
> I have no idea why '3' particularly, however in my case I found the solution:

The hardware isn't broken, the driver is. The interface which crashes
will be the one which receives multicast traffic while its hardware
multicast filter is being reconfigured.

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Osma Ahvenlampi