Oversized ethernet frame - where does it come from?

[Karoly VEGH <karoly.vegh@uta.at>]

woody 2.4.18 sendmail SMTP server.

quite often it stands in the log (and on the console:)

May 28 11:53:15 mx1new kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned
multiple buffers, entry 0x4 length 0 status 00000600!
May 28 11:53:15 mx1new kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame e4a4d040 vs
e4a4d040.
May 28 11:53:46 mx1new kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned
multiple buffers, entry 0x2 length 0 status 00000600!
May 28 11:53:46 mx1new kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame e4a4d020 vs
e4a4d020.
May 28 11:53:53 mx1new kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned
multiple buffers, entry 0x6 length 0 status 00000600!
May 28 11:53:53 mx1new kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame e4a4d060 vs
e4a4d060.

how can i search, where do the oversized frames come from?
can it be, that this is the reason, that sometimes the computer loses the
connection to the net completely?

(/etc/init.d/networking stop then start helps)

With tcpdump i logged a bit traffic, i try to look it through with
ethereal, but in the second where the message comes from are several other
packets as well, hard to decide where it comes from... any idea how to
filter more?

or how to search on?

thanks in advance,

charlie

-- 
Vegh Karoly


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