Someone (Allen or Denny?) committed changes to the source tree
yesterday that were aimed at alleviating this problem.  The
madhatter#39 kernel was built with these changes in it.  I would
expect a new generic kernel sometime soon as well.

Steve Brown,
sbrown@best.com

p.s.  The network load does seem to affect this greatly.

> I installed the curent-97_04_02 with Generic-28 kernel on my
> Quadra 700(20MB ram, on-board video and ethernet), but the system
> offten shows me the following message:
> /netbsd:sn0:receive buffer area exhausted
> 
> Does anyone have any idea?
> Thanx for any information!
> 
> Yuan-Chin Chen
> Physics Department, National Cheng-Kung University
> 
>