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Date:      Sun, 07 Dec 1997 14:36:44 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Charlie ROOT <root@hrollur.itn.is>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIC memory 
Message-ID:  <199712072236.OAA13326@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Dec 1997 20:06:34 GMT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971207200441.10842A-100000@hrollur.itn.is> 

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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



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