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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
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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