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- From: dwong@sgi.com (David Wong)
- Subject: Re: Ethernet bug in 4.0.5F indigos
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec16.221212.11863@umbc3.umbc.edu> <1992Dec17.065406.22404@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 18:57:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.065406.22404@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za> philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.221212.11863@umbc3.umbc.edu> David A Freeman,
- >dave@umbc8.umbc.edu writes:
- >> I noticed that in 4.0.5F, in the file /usr/sysgen/master.d/if_ec2
- >>the value of the ec_rcvinit_delay variable is 13 In 4.0.5 the value
- >>was 13333. I checked with SGI and found that the correct value is 13333
- >>for all 4.0.X software. All of our r4000 4.0.5F systems and the
- >distribution
- >>media that we have received have the variable set to 13.
- >
- >On our R3000 Indigo running 4.0.1 it is set to 0. Is this something I
- >should change?
- >--
- >Philip Machanick
- >Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
- >philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za phone: 27 (11) 716-3759 fax: 339-7965
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- this value is actually not a big deal. it tells the HPC how long to wait
- before generating an interrupt to the CPU after receiving a packet. it
- doesn't even get used under normal circumstance. the driver looks at that
- variable only when it detects some abnormal condition and switch to
- promiscuous mode. i put the change in by mistake in 4.0.5F.
-