On Wed, 15 May 2002 19:35:18 +0300
"netbsd" <netbsd@purk.ee> wrote:

> Honestly...there is no much help for that:) What says netstat -m ? The quick
> way is buy a pair of Intel or 3com nicks:)

During network is down or what? When everything is alright netstat -m prints these values:

43 mbufs in use:
        30 mbufs allocated to data
        12 mbufs allocated to packet headers
        1 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses
0/56 mapped pages in use
216 Kbytes allocated to network (4% in use)
0 requests for memory denied
0 requests for memory delayed
0 calls to protocol drain routines

> After i upgraded to Intel EtherExpress 100S..there is no sign of having
> those haunting messages on logs...
> Are u using RTL8139 chips?

Yes. I'm old Debian user and I had no problems like that when I used Debian GNU/Linux. ;)
So the issue isn't about the NIC.