[Etherboot-developers] Re: mini-slamd question

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"Timothy Legge" <tl...@ro...> writes:
> 
> I have made some progress.  I now receive a lot of UDP checksum errors
> and retransmissions see attached tar however the Linux kernel boots
> correctly.  Are these retransmissions normal?

The retransmissions are correct behavior of the protocol when packet
loss occurs.  They are undesirable.  There are a couple possible
causes of:

Kernel with broken multicast support. 2.4.early had this problem.
Broken switch.
Transmitter that transmits packets faster than the receiver can
  receive them.  (mini-slamd transmits packets as fast as it can...)

But my hunch is the packets are getting through just with UDP checksum
errors.  So I guess the question is what is causing the packets to
become corrupt.

Eric