Subject: Re: le0: overflow
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/17/1998 21:04:02
[ On Thu, December 17, 1998 at 17:11:06 (-0500), Steve Conley wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: le0: overflow 
>
> 	It's not in the SPARC manual, it's from three different 10baseT
> hub manuals.  I guess the protocols don't live happily together.

They're probably just applying the "C.Y.A." principle so that people
don't get themselves into trouble with too many repeaters.  There's no
"protocol" issue -- a hub is effectively just a set of electronic relays.

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