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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!msuinfo!budzyn From: budzyn@cps.msu.edu (Joseph D Budzyn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: ed0 NIC mem corrupt Date: 18 Oct 1994 17:02:52 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <380v3s$135b@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <37maef$a7r@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: arctic.cps.msu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Thomas Heiling (tom@uv3.pharmazie.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote: : Hello ! : I have some problems with the Ethernet driver in Freebsd : ( Version 1.1.51 + Patches 1-20 ). After normal work : I get console messages with : "/386bsd ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65535". : This is a SMC Elite Ultra in an 386/40 + 8 MB RAM. : The strange Thing with this is, that I had no problems : while connecting only two machines ( One Linux and one BSD ) : and do NFS,telnet and so on. : But now I want to try FreeBSD and this machine to the : Internet and I get these strange errors. : Maybe someone can enlighten me : Thanks for your help : Thomas I believe it has to do with the amount of traffic on the local subnet. When I seperate my machines from the net, the problem goes away. When it is connected, problems occur. I also have a ring buffer overflow while using NetBSD-0.9. Joe