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To: Charlie ROOT <root@hrollur.itn.is>
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Subject: Re: NIC memory 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 14:36:44 -0800
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>I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2, and it's preatty stable
>but frequently the system echoes in console screen:
>
>ed0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length ????
>
>
>what is this NIC memory, is it broken that way I can't fix it without
>replace something ?

   It means that for whatever reason, the pointers in the packet memory for
the next packet didn't agree with the start+length of the current packet.
It can probably be ignored unless it happens too frequently.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project