Subject: Re: ae problems w/Farallon EtherMac
To: Amitai Schlair <amitai.schlair@usa.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/12/1998 20:33:17
Amitai Schlair wrote:
> 
> I've now got IP-NAT working seamlessly over Ethernet. Nice work, guys!
> 
> I've been noticing some error messages popping up every now and then on
> the console: "Jan 12 23:33:22 b60735 /netbsd: ae2: warning - receiver
> ring buffer overrun"
> 
> Any ideas what this might be? The card in ae2 is a "Farallon EtherMac
> II-C, 32KB memory" (from dmesg).

Chances are you're receiving data faster than the kernel can handle it.
Do you have a lot of traffic on you net?  What kind of machine is it?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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