At 20:33 Uhr +0200 24.10.2001, Marc Coevoet wrote:
>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?

You can

a) work on the quirk
b) ignore it
c) avoid to do anything under MacOS that touches the ethernet card
   (disable Appletalk & MacTCP)

Personally, I tend to go with b).   ;)

	hauke

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