Gianfar tx-babbling-errors

[Kumar Gala]

On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Scott Coulter wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> As a simple stress test for my board with an MPC8572E and an  
> MPC8568E on
> it, I setup both processors to boot linux 2.6.27.6 with an NFS root  
> and
> then perform repeated native compiles of a linux kernel over NFS.   
> After
> running for 4 days straight or so with between 250-300 build cycles  
> per
> processor, I stopped the builds and ran ethtool to look for any odd
> statistics.  Both processors reported non-zero values for
> tx-babbling-errors.  Both processors reported around 1300
> tx-babbling-errors out of about 80,000,000 Tx packets.  Should I be
> concerned about the tx-babbling-errors?  What conditions would cause
> these errors to be reported?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott

I'm told this will occur when:

Transmitted frame > MAXFRM and MACCFG2[Huge En] = 0.

- k