Re: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers
I've seen these a lot on busy networks.
I'm assuming you have a tulip card?
Basically, a collision produced a really large frame.
They can be ignored.
--Simon
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question every so often I get messages of the following form
>
> Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple
> buffers,s
> tatus 7fffceff!
> Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple
> buffers,s
> tatus 073a858e!
> Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple
> buffers,s
> tatus 7fffceff!
> Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple
> buffers,s
> tatus 0618858a!
>
> Anybody knows what this is all about ??
>
>
> Thanks
> George
>
Simon Karpen slk@shodor.org
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