[LARTC] Ethernet packet loss - frame errors

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:09:50 +0200
Justin Schoeman <justin at expertron.co.za> wrote:

> OK - Just finished more testing, and it seems to be a bug in the sky2 
> driver...
> 
> ping -s 1450 -f xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> works perfectly, but
> 
> ping -s 1500 -f xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> fails 100% with all packets being logged as frame errors.
> 
> -justin
>

Do you have an MTU mismatch?  If the sender assumes it can send
large packets, and the receiver doesn't expect them it might cause it.