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Posted by prox, from Home, on November 07, 2004 at 17:53 local (server) time

[prox:starfire:17:44:3]% dmesg|grep ^rl0
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xed002000-0xed0020ff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci1
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:48:54:84:d7:9a
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type c8f6 flags 3 len 3435 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 5845 flags 3 len 40907 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 4ea6 flags 3 len 57294 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 3036 flags 3 len 29281 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type ceae flags 3 len 28448 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 6d03 flags 3 len 2352 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type a633 flags 3 len 7101 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 5431 flags 3 len 6690 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type f8a6 flags 3 len 61303 > max 1514)

Friggin' buggy FreeBSD rl driver keeps causing random downtime.  I suppose I should upgrade starfire [this webserver] to 5.3-RELEASE.  Maybe I'd be more inclined if the machine wasn't over 180 miles away.

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