Subject: Re: le0: CRC errors
To: Mike Kelly <tfsmiles@ecst.csuchico.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 10/23/1996 17:34:09
On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:18:23 -0700 (PDT) 
 Mike Kelly <tfsmiles@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:

 > Occasionally I get this error message one the system console:
 > le0: CRC
 > le0: FRAM
 > 
 > I have several 300 series machines running NetBSD 1.1 all of which seem
 > to suffer from this problem.  I have not been running 1.2 long enough to
 > determine if this problem is still present.

This was `fixed' in 1.2 ... What it's telling you is that the LANCE is
finding garbled packets on the network ... some device on the network
isn't behaving properly.

 > This appears to be a network related error, all of my machines are
 > using 10Base-T via the AUI port if that makes any difference.
 > 
 > Are there any fixes for this?

The message is displayed conditional on compiling the kernel with the
"LEDEBUG" option.

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