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From: macwhiz@phoebe.accinet.net (Rob Levandowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Ethernet alignment errors?
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:55:12 -0500
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I have a news server running an older snapshot of FreeBSD-2.2.   (I know, I
should upgrade, but I haven't had the opportunity to have the downtime
yet.)  In the past, this server has worked without problems.

However, lately I've been getting the occasional log message:

/kernel: de0: receive: [enet addr] alignment error

de0 is a SMC EtherPower 10/100 card in 10baseT mode.  Being a news server,
it sees a good deal of traffic.

What does this error mean, how can I diagnose the cause, and what can be
done to remedy it?

Rob

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Robert Levandowski
Internet Systems Analyst
ACC iNet / ACC Long Distance Corp.
robl@phoebe.accinet.net