Re: incorrect checksum ¿?

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Docume wrote:

> When I execute 'vortex-diag eth0' I see...
> 
> [...]
>   Vortex format checksum is incorrect (0005 vs. 10b7).
>   Cyclone format checksum is incorrect (0x9f vs. 0x93).
>   Hurricane format checksum is incorrect (0xb6 vs. 0x93).
> 
> Is that normal?

This happens when some configuration program fails to update the EEPROM
checksum when it changes the configuration.
The usual source is changing the network boot parameters.

I can understand why the program skips the checksum update -- 3Com has
changed the checksum location and which bytes are checked several times.

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Donald Becker				[email protected]
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