On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 02:07:55PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> ne0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun
> ne0: length does not match next packet pointer
> ne0: len 760e nlen 7a0e start 4c first 7d curr 7e next f8 stop 80
> ne0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 31246
> uvm_fault(0xf01ea298, 0xf3bbe000, 0, 1) -> 1
> ne0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun
> 
> I take it it means what it says
> ne0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 31246
> ie., I need to send the ethernet card back?

Most likely someone was sending data to your system so fast that the
ne card runs out of receive buffers which seems to corrupt the data
pointers (or something) which gives the "invalid length" message above.

I saw these all the time on my Amiga..

  -jm