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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:22:58 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: alphen@craxx.com
Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: NIC memory corrupt
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On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 07:06:38PM +0100, laurens van alphen wrote:
> [repost, last message was without a subject]
> 
> hi,
> 
> my security check output of this 2.2.7-R box says:
> 
> ed2: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 8440
> 
> where 8440 may be replaced by 8702, 8701 or 8444
> and repeated approx 50 times.
> 
> was this:
> - a bad hacker
> - a bad nic (pci realtek 8029, 10base-t, ne2000-comp)
> - a bad driver

I'm getting these (with 8440 replaced by 40) from a bunch of RealTek
cards that otherwise seem to work fine.  Always comes on bootup (just
as the first packet is sent) on a bunch of different machines.

Eivind.


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