rl0 discard oversize frame

Amer H. Alhabsi alhabsi at squ.edu.om
Tue Aug 28 20:39:04 PDT 2007


Philippe Laquet wrote:
> Hi Amer,
>
> Could you send an "ifconfig -a" ?
>
> It may occur if your MTU doesn't match
>
> Amer H. Alhabsi a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> The network card that came with the PC (Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit 
>> Ethernet) was not recognized by sysinstall. So I bought a real tek 
>> based card that works fine. But when I run dmesg, I get lots of these 
>> lines (almost 900):
>> rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 0 flags 3 len 1532 > max 1514)
>>
>> Can someone please advise what can be done to stop that.
>>
>> I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 release.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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Thanks for the reply. Here is the output of "ifconfig -a"

rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    options=8<VLAN_MTU>
    inet 172.22.15.39 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.22.255.255
    ether 00:e0:4c:ef:04:87
    media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
    status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000



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