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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: comments on de driver error message?
In-Reply-To: <199812290433.XAA21465@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from Daniel Eischen at "Dec 28, 98 11:33:53 pm"
To: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:36:36 +0100 (CET)
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As Daniel Eischen wrote...
> > de0: receive: 00:00:f8:06:07:f5: bad crc
> > de0: receive: 00:00:f8:06:ab:1f: alignment error
> >
> > ?
> >
> > This is 2.2.6R on a Kingston10/100 PCI card, but I also see it on DEC DE500
> > cards  in my other machines (one Pentium 100, one Alpha AXPpci33). The P100
> > and the Alpha are (almost) -current.
> 
> We were also getting messages like this out of the de driver.
> The problem turned out to be a faulty cable on one of the
> other systems in our network.  Hunt down the machines with
> Ethernet addresses 00:00:f8:06:07:f5 and 00:00:f8:06:ab:1f
> and try replacing their cables.

At least I'm not alone ;-)

I'll borrow some known-good cables next week to see how that works.

Wilko
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