Subject: Re: SONIC woes in Q800
To: None <matias@k-bell.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/26/1999 09:57:26
[Mat_as] Giovannini wrote:
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having a problem with NetBSD on my Quadra 800. After running for
> a while (approx. one day), I see the following error
> 
>         sn0: receive buffer area exhausted
> 
> and the network dies. I'd like to know if there's a fix for it,
> since I'm running a nameserver.

i'm not sure what's causing this...are you on a busy ethernet?
 
> The installed version is NetBSD 1.3.3 release of 19981217 (kernel
> named "(GENERIC) #0 12/17/98".
> 
> I've tried a couple of -current kernels, but they won't boot on the Q800.

where do they die?  it's fairly important that we get this fixed, as the
1.4 branch is very soon...

later.

colin