Re: network (tulip?) problem with pre-2.0.31-X

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 21:27:34 +0200


On Aug 12, Harald Koenig wrote:

> using both the tulip-0.76 and DaveM's pre-2.0.31-2 and now tulip-0.78 and Linus' pre-2.0.31-4
> we get the following messages from time to time
>
> Aug 12 19:31:25 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff!
> Aug 12 19:31:25 alamak kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 063c81a2!

> when receiving much and fast data via 100Mbit ethernet from a Linux PC to
> Linux dual-PPro200 SMP (haven't tried yet if receiving with UP kernel would fix
> this).

quick update: the same messages show up on UP systems for plain 2.0.30
with tulip-0.76.

Harald

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