From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 7 09:00:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA16783 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 09:00:47 -0700 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA16777 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 09:00:44 -0700 Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA02347; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 12:01:22 -0400 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199507071601.MAA02347@crh.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: ed1: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 12:01:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507070629.XAA01536@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jul 6, 95 11:29:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 560 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > It's caused by the receive buffer in the ethernet card overflowing. Is it >a 16bit card? If not, you should change it. If it is, then I'd just ignore it; >it's not a very important error. Its a 16bit SMC, so basically what is happening is the small on-card buffer is pitching packets, which will be resent. The card is in a crappy 486/66 so I wouldnt be suprised if it wasnt servicing the card as often as it should. -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/