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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 1997 20:20:43 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Errors with DEC 21040 NIC in 2.2-stable
Message-ID:  <199712301920.UAA01361@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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 > > 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)



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