Re: [netatalk-admins] Transmitter Timeout


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Transmitter Timeout
From: Albert Max Lai (amlai@columbia.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 07 1999 - 14:08:48 EST


On Tuesday, 7 December 1999, Lan-Z wrote:

> I have an eepro100 and I get a transmitter timeout error...trying to
> restart transmitter on the console...during which users attached to the
> Linux box seem to pause for a second or two.

The multicast filter (which is used quite heavily in AppleTalk) is
broken in the eepro100 driver. To fix this, stick the following lines
into your /etc/conf.modules:

options eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=3
alias eth1 eepro100

-- 
Albert Lai <amlai@columbia.edu>
http://www.columbia.edu/~aml61



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