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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!broncho.ct.monash.edu.au!sjlai From: sjlai@broncho.ct.monash.edu.au (Simon Lai) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-current and ed0: NIC memory corrupt errors Date: 8 May 1994 23:49:29 GMT Organization: Monash University Lines: 48 Message-ID: <2qjtq9$o36@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> References: <hart.768321124@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: broncho.ct.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Leigh Hart (hart@apanix.apana.org.au) wrote: : newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes: : : >In article <2qcbag$f5t@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU>, Glen Pill (rxtgep@geppc.xx.rmit.edu.au) wrote: : > > Has anyone found a solution to this problem... : > > ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65535 : > > ed0: is a SMC Ultra : : > > ed0 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f iomem 0xe0000-0xe3fff irq 10: : > > address 00:00:c0:ce:a8:83, type SMC8216/SMC8216C (16-bit) : : >I get the same thing with an NE2000: : [error messages deleted] : >Apr 27 01:18:19 cleese /386bsd: ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 20225 : : I get exactly the same with my NE2000 (FreeBSD also) : [stuff deleted] : In my case it does do plenty of harm, ftp seems to be the main cause : of these errors (or fast traffic anyway) and it only happens in one : direction - the transfers bog down to 1-2k/second and sometimes : lockup completely. : : >Is it worth worrying about? : : It is in my case :( : : Cheers : : Leigh I had the same thing with FreeBSD1.1 and a WD8013EPC, also when I was doing a lot of ftp, though my machine did not seem to bog down. Found the cure was to reduce the ISA bus speed. BTW my transfer rate on a two node ethernet setup is ~500K/sec max. I was hoping for a bit faster, 486DX2-66 one end 386DX33 the other. Should it be faster ? later Simon -- Simon Lai, sjlai@broncho.ct.monash.edu.au, Department of Computer Technology, Monash University (Caulfield Campus), Caulfield 3145, Australia, Earth.