On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:01:45 -0000 
 "Koestler, Sonja (IT Man.)" <Koestlers@plcman.siemens.co.uk> wrote:

 > Hello again,

Greetings...

 > sorry for asking so many (silly) questions. I hope I don't annoy/upset
 > you.

No problem... (I wouldn't call this a silly question, in any case... :-)

 > Now that NetBSD is up and running, sometimes a strange message appears
 > on the screen, which means absolutely nothing to me (except that it is
 > dealing with network:
 > 
 > manip602 /netbsd: we1: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun
 > 
 > Does anyone know what it means?

It means that more packets arrived than can fit in the board's on-board
RAM (i.e. the packets weren't drained quickly enough from the buffer before
it filled).  Depending in the type of machine you have, this can be
considered "normal" (i.e. it will take older, slower machines longer to
sevice the card's interrupt, thus increasing the chance of this warning
in the presence of heavy network traffic.)

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