discarded oversize frames

[Arnaud Lacombe]

> Have you found a solution to this? I am having the same problems on a 
> machine very recently updated (cvsupped + buildworld on 4/14/2005):
> kernel.log:Feb 25 13:46:40 trinity kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame 
> (ether type 3db4 flags 3 len 8381 > max 1514)
> kernel.log:Apr 10 14:27:37 trinity kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame 
> (ether type 5a84 flags 3 len 2614 > max 1514)
> kernel.log:Apr 18 16:17:53 trinity kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame 
> (ether type 1867 flags 3 len 16941 > max 1514)

I have the same bug. I updated this saturday from 5.2.1 to 5.4-stable.
I never had this messages while I was running 5.2.1. The bug occured
on time when the interface was under high network load (full speed
bidirectionnal ftp transfert on a FastEthernet link).

Apr 24 21:03:26 kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 80a
flags 3 len 39097 > max 1514)
Apr 24 21:05:07 kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 80a
flags 3 len 14644 > max 1514)
Apr 24 21:10:11 kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 80a
flags 3 len 37720 > max 1514)
Apr 24 22:50:27 kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 518
flags 3 len 29599 > max 1514)
Apr 24 22:50:27 kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 85c3
flags 3 len 62507 > max 1514)
Apr 25 13:47:07 kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 80a
flags 3 len 61311 > max 1514)
Apr 27 23:13:06 kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 140
flags 3 len 45772 > max 1514)

> After the message, the machine becomes completely unresponsive and I 
> have to do a power-off, power-on reset.
In my case, it didn't crash the machine but I had to ifconfig down /
up to make it work.

Arnaud

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