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Table 1-5 Table 1-6 FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter Release Notes Patches and Fixes in Version B.11.00.07 PHNE_16503 (Continued) Symptom 3. lanadmin displays Operation Status as "down(2)" even if the interface is up. 4. System hangs under heavy network traffic over EISA FDDI. Defect 3. The driver was not updating the operation status field in its data structure after the initialization was complete. As a result, incorrect status was displayed by the lanadmin(1M) command. 4. Under heavy network load, the driver fails t enqueue packets due t lack of transmit descriptors. In such a condition the driver is supposed to free the buffers associated with the packet. This was not being done. As a result, kernel runs out of memory leading to a system hang. PHNE_15667 Symptom Defect 1. The EISA FDDI interface may hang after logging the message "Waited for stat2_ine4 but it never came" to syslog. 1. A software reset mechanism was introduced in the EISA FDDI driver to work around the hardware defects in the Motorola FDDI System Interface (FSI) chip. This mechanism did not detect all the circumstances under which the card had t be reset. 2. When an attempt is made to change the MAC address of the card using lanadmin(1M), the link is unusable for up to 10 seconds and the MAC address remains unchanged. 2. The MAC address of the card cannot be changed. Users were not prevented from attempting to do this. 3. Under certain conditions, too many informative driver messages are logged to syslog, causing it to overflow. 3. SMT and other informative messages were incorrectly sent to syslog instead of the NetTL log. Chapter 1 25