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From: Ben Stuyts <benst@terminus.stuyts.nl>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 97 11:00:54 +0200
To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Subject: Re: Excessive Ierrs from laptop to 2.2-Stable server
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Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> wrote:

> Ben Stuyts wrote:
> > I said:
> >
> > Aug 27 22:30:32 terminus /kernel: de0: receive: 00:20:e0:0c:38:59:  
alignment error
> > Aug 27 22:30:33 terminus /kernel: de0: receive: 00:20:e0:0c:38:59: bad crc
> > Aug 27 22:30:33 terminus /kernel: de0: receive: 00:20:e0:0c:38:59:  
alignment error
> > Aug 27 22:30:35 terminus /kernel: de0: receive: 00:20:e0:0c:38:59:  
alignment error
> > Aug 27 22:30:36 terminus /kernel: de0: receive: 00:20:e0:0c:38:59: bad crc
> > Aug 27 22:30:36 terminus /kernel: de0: receive: 00:20:e0:0c:38:59:  
alignment error
> > Aug 27 22:30:37 terminus /kernel: de0: receive: 00:20:e0:0c:38:59: bad crc
> >
> > So, what could cause this? Is this bad hardware, a driver problem, or what?
> >
>
> Is your cabling alright?
>
> -Guido

Yes, of course. I checked other cables, but it didn't make any difference.  
And in any case, the laptop works fine on the same network to other computers.  
Just not to the FreeBSD machine. And the other computers have no problem  
communicating with the FreeBSD machine either.

Ben