[ On Sat, December 19, 1998 at 04:14:31 (+1100), Robert Elz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: le0: overflow 
>
> Yes, however I suspect it is likely to be about the best that you will
> achieve with that hardware.   It isn't impossible that there's something
> broken, or marginal, in your hardware, though you'd think that anything
> marginal in this particular area would manifest itself with far more serious
> and annoying effects that lance oferflow errors.

Given the similarity between Chris' setup and mine, in combination with
your explanation of what the warning really means, I can only imagine
that it is some kind of a hardware failure.  Perhaps it's due to a minor
variation between different revisions of the sparc-1 hardware, or the
Lance chip itself.

I've got another similar sparc-1 that's headless and diskfull, but on
which I've done kernel builds and the like over NFS mounts, again
without ever having any overflow errors.

I can get the hardware rev numbers from the boards if that'll help.

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