I've seen these a lot on busy networks. I'm assuming you have a tulip card?
Basically, a collision produced a really large frame. They can be ignored. --Simon On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a question every so often I get messages of the following form > > Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers,s > tatus 7fffceff! > Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers,s > tatus 073a858e! > Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers,s > tatus 7fffceff! > Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple > buffers,s > tatus 0618858a! > > Anybody knows what this is all about ?? > > > Thanks > George > Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .