On Mon, 13 May 1996, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > 	I've just installed the March 13th snapshot and keep getting
> > 	qe0: ring overrun, resync'd by skipping 1
> > 	(then 2, 3,.. up to 14 then looping again)
> > 	they happen a couple of times a minute & occur even on an idle
> > 	network. The network card appears to work fine.
> > 
> > 	Has this been fixed in -current (Am I just wasting people's time
> > 	here :)
> > 
> This is a generic problem with the deqna. The receive buffer ring
> gets filled up so some packets get lost. I gets these messages
> frequently when having medium-loaded systems with NFS, but never
> when using a delqa card. It doesn't hurt to get them but you can try
> to increase the receive buffer pool in if_qe.c. I don't have any
> programming manuals for deqna so I don't know how much it can be
> det to.
> 
	I would have assumed something like this, but for the fact it
	happens when it is the only machine on the network (the network
	being a cable approx 1 metre long in this case :)

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