From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 30 11:21:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA17254 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17241 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:20:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01361 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 30 Dec 1997 20:20:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 20:20:43 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199712301920.UAA01361@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Errors with DEC 21040 NIC in 2.2-stable Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > It was running with 2.1.7.1 about one year without problems. > > Since the upgrade to 2.2-971223, I get the following syslog > > messages every now and then: > > > > Dec 29 18:18:19 dorifer /kernel: de0: receive: 00:e0:f7:8a:8d:41: alignment error > > Dec 29 18:25:37 dorifer /kernel: de0: receive: 00:00:e8:0d:8d:6f: bad crc > > I once got messages like that from a de card, and it turned out > to be some other machine on my local network that wasn't working > well. Track down those mac addresses and that will help isolate > where the problem is from. It occurs with all kinds of different MAC addresses, including the router's and my own private boxes', so that doesn't really help. And besides -- If there was a machine causing that trouble, the ethernet hubs should filter the bad packets out (at least the manual of the hubs says so). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)