FreeBSD 4.10 Stable on VMWare 4.5.1 - network problem

[Ivan Voras]

Solomon Kounin wrote:

> Hello
>  
> I've recently installed FreeBSD 4.10 - STABLE on VMWare 4.5.1 and some
> strange errors/warnings are showing up from time to time in the log file:
>  
> Jul 28 14:43:25 vmware /kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer
> Jul 28 16:02:48 vmware /kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer
> Jul 28 17:47:51 vmware /kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer
> Jul 28 17:54:08 vmware /kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer
> Jul 28 18:52:00 vmware /kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer

I notice the same errors on FreeBSD 5-current under "heavy" traffic. It 
seems that vmware is emulating a 10mbit NIC, and the messages pop up 
when the traffic gets heavy. It seems that they are only warning 
messages, as everything works fine. (ignore them)


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