Hi,

> I still use NetBSD 1.3.2 (GENERICSBC) #0: Sun May 17 00:31:35 CDT 1998
> and got the following report from dmesg
>
> ae0 at nubus0 slot 9: MacCon Ethernet, 32KB memory
> ae0: Ethernet address 00:00:94:21:96:34
> ae0: length does not match next packet pointer
> ae0: len 0000 nlen ff00 start 0c first 00 curr 44 next 00 stop 80
> ae0: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 65280
>
> So this bug has been existing for a longtime?

This isn't a bug, per se; if you're on a busy network segment you'll
probably see this on each reboot. It indicates that between the time that
the network card was reset and the time that NetBSD initialised it some
stuff got stuck into the ethernet card's buffer.

It's common on all platforms - I've seen it on Amiga, i386, too.

John Klos
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