fair@clock.org (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> See le(4) from the sun3 sub-directory; I put all the error messages that
> the AMD 7990 driver will generate and some explanation into that.
> 
> I remember looking this up before - do you have anything else on your
> Ethernet that generates illegally large packets?

I recall that badly crimped coax cables could cause this.  The noise
from the loose connection would sometimes imitate an overly large
packet (no doubt with a bad CRC).  Under SunOS this used to come up
with 'le0: dropping overly large packet' or some such error.

-wolfgang
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