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From: jch@SONNE.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Jeffrey C Honig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: FAL 1.2/BTI/Proteon problem
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Date: 15 Dec 88 21:33:58 GMT
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Reply-To: Jeffrey C Honig <jch@sonne.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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I just searched high and low for a mail message from Proteon I had seen
about this problem to no avail.  Proteon has a padding problem with
their p4215 Proteon Ethernet boards and software version 8.0.  Minimum
length packets are padded with a couple of extra bytes.  This is
supposedly fixed in the next release.  This does not affect the
p4213/p4214 Interlan boards where the padding is done by the Ethernet
controller. 

This won't account for the short packets seen by the BTI box though.  Do
you have any other way of looking at Ethernet packets to verify that
there is really something wrong with them?  Netwatch or Lanwatch on a PC
or etherfind or tcpdump on a Sun be good tools. 

Do you have the latest and greatest FAL driver from David, he found bug
dealing with short packets a couple of weeks ago.  I don't think it
relates to this problem though. 

Jeff