Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:49:29 +0100 | From | Franz Sirl <> | Subject | Re: Ethernet frame spanned... |
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At 11:01 Uhr +0100 19.11.1996, Johnny Stenback wrote: >Hi > >Got a lot (~200 before I rebooted) of these in my log with 2.0.25 on >Sunday... > >kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,status 0085c1be! > >The status number changes > > 0071c1ba > 7fffceff > 00c6c1ba > 01c1c1ba > ... > >These came in bursts of ~10-50 with ~30 seconds between the bursts, >everything worked as far as I could tell though... > >The eth0 card is the only network card in the machine and it is a "old >smc8432 (DEC 21040 Tulip)" according to the kernel (with the tulip >driver) and it's connected to the net through the BNC-port (it's a >combo card). > >I don't know if this is a hardware failure, something strange >happening on the LAN or a driver bug, I just thought that I'd let you >know...
Hmm, I had these a while ago, but the messages are gone since the Linux machine is connected directly via BNC to a switch. So this is most probably either a cabling problem or a software problem of the other clients on the net. It would be interesting to find a common point in the setup of the clients. On our net there are: - DOS/Win31 hosts with the Novell DOS client software and MS TCP/IP 3.11b - Win95 hosts (probably not the cause, the problems existed before introduction of Win95 in our company) - SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.4 and 2.5.1 hosts - Novell 4.1 Server - Trace32 in-circuit emulators (you probably don't have one of these ;-) )
With the introduction of the switch also Novell was updated from 3.11 to 4.1, could be a cause also. But my personal feeling is that MS TCP/IP32 3.11b in combination with some Windows network settings (file/printer sharing?) is the cause for this messages.
Bye, Franz.
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