Patch-ID# 100570-01
Keywords: ie0, ethernet, controller, interrupt, resetting
Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1;4.1.2: ie0 ethernet jumbo patch
Date: 30/Mar/92

SunOS release: 4.1.1 4.1.2

Unbundled Product: 

Unbundled Release: 

Topic: ie patch

BugId's fixed with this patch: 1039326 1085043 1054014 1052879

Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3, sun3x, sun4

Patches which may conflict with this patch: obsolete patch 100261, 100321

Obsoleted by:

1039326:
Under heavy system load the following message appears
"ie0: lost interrupt resetting" and the driver resets
this could be a result of the interrupt not actually
being lost.

1085043:
When machines using Intel 82586 Ethernet controllers (eg, sun4/1XX,
sun4/2XX and sun4/4XX) are on the same subnet as those machines using
AMD 7990 Ethernet controllers (eg, SS1, SS2, and galaxy), the former
lose the contention from time to time and print out "ie0: net jammed"
messages.  Users usually worry about this.

1054014:
Confirmed that the 4/490 was sending out misaligned frames.
A network sniffer will show at the DLC layer that the "bad" packets are
misaligned frames.

1052879:
Adding and removing Multicast addresses to the ie interface can sometimes
generate the above panic.


files included with this patch: ie_conf.c, ie_conf.o, if_ie.o, if_ievar.h

Install Instructions: 

As root:

mv /sys/`arch -k`/OBJ/ie_conf.o /sys/`arch -k`/OBJ/ie_conf.o.FCS
mv /sys/`arch -k`/OBJ/if_ie.o /sys/`arch -k`/OBJ/if_ie.o.FCS
mv /sys/sunif/ie_conf.c /sys/sunif/ie_conf.c.FCS
mv /sys/sunif/if_ievar.h /sys/sunif/if_ievar.h.FCS
 
cp `arch -k`/{4.1.1,4.1.2}/ie_conf.o /sys/`arch -k`/OBJ
cp `arch -k`/{4.1.1,4.1.2}/if_ie.o /sys/`arch -k`/OBJ
cp `arch -k`/{4.1.1,4.1.2}/ie_conf.c /sys/sunif
cp `arch -k`/{4.1.1,4.1.2}/if_ievar.h /sys/sunif
 
A new kernel will need to be built and installed.
Please refer to the system and networking administration manual
for details on building and installing a new kernel